Station Surgery, Sowerby Bridge
Description: Station Surgery
Grade: II
Date Listed: 19 July 1988
English Heritage Building ID: 339370
OS Grid Reference: SE0598823411
OS Grid Coordinates: 405988, 423411
Latitude/Longitude: 53.7071, -1.9108
Location: Victoria Road, Sowerby, Halifax, Calderdale HX6 3LB
Locality: Sowerby Bridge
Local Authority: Calderdale
County: West Yorkshire
Country: England
Postcode: HX6 3LB
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Listing Text
SOWERBY BRIDGE STATION ROAD
SE 0423 & SE 0523
(south side)
12/240
Station Surgery
GV II
Police Station now surgery. Dated 1894. Squared rubblestone brought to
course, Welsh slate roof. 2 storeys, 3 bays. Gothic style. Station Road
front: central bay gabled and projecting; right bay gabled and set back.
Left bay has elliptical-arched quoined doorway with moulded surround and
cornice. Above is plaque in quoined chamfered surround inscribed 'Police
Station 1894'. Central bay has 4-light window with 3-light window above,
both in quoined moulded surrounds with dripmoulds. Right bay is masked
by single-storey C20 addition (in keeping but destroying balance of facade).
On lst floor is 3-light window as before. Moulded copings, corniced stacks
to right of ridges of gabled bays. Rear (onto Victoria Road): right bay
gabled. Central gabled porch with door as front under hoodmould, coped
gable with ball finials and small window in each return. Windows, as front,
of 2, 3 and 4 lights. Chamfered eaves band to left bays, moulded coping
to right bay and stack in its right roof pitch.
Listing NGR: SE0598823411
Source: English Heritage
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