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Latitude: 51.5624 / 51°33'44"N
Longitude: -1.1469 / 1°8'48"W
OS Eastings: 459231
OS Northings: 185183
OS Grid: SU592851
Mapcode National: GBR 91D.YNK
Mapcode Global: VHCYP.2ZJM
Plus Code: 9C3WHV63+X6
Entry Name: The Gables
Listing Date: 20 November 1992
Grade: II
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1052183
English Heritage Legacy ID: 361499
ID on this website: 101052183
Location: South Oxfordshire, OX10
County: Oxfordshire
District: South Oxfordshire
Civil Parish: Cholsey
Traditional County: Berkshire
Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Oxfordshire
Church of England Parish: Cholsey
Church of England Diocese: Oxford
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The following building shall be added:-
CHOLSEY
READING ROAD
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2/10001 The Gables
GV II
Former station hotel/tavern. c1841, probably by I.K. Brunel for the
Great Western Railway. Painted red brick with stone dressings. Slated
roofs with 2 steeply pitched gables, having projecting eaves and
bargeboards, to each facade; tall brick chimney stacks, 2 rising from
ground floor through gables. Square plan with 2 bays to each facade.
2 storeys and attic. Main facade symmetrical with Tudor-arched
entrance flanked by transom and mullion windows to ground and 1st
floor; narrow vertically set window above entrance. Similar narrow
windows to attic. Other facades in similar style with half glazed
doors having intersecting tracery to glazing bars in Tudor arched
doorways; platform elevation has remains of a canopy flanked by 2
canted bay windows. Interior retains staircase with turned newels and
original panelled doors. This building is an early example of a
station hotel; the platform, with only a simple shelter, was reached
at the end of a sloping drive. It was originally named Wallingford
Road, being-renamed Moulsford station in 1866 after the opening of the
Wallingford Branch Line.
Listing NGR: SU5923185183
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