London Road Railway Station And Adjoining Goods Sheds And Canopies

NOTTINGHAM

SK5739SE LONDON ROAD 646-1/24/329 (East side) 12/07/72 London Road Railway Station and adjoining goods sheds and canopies (Formerly Listed as: LONDON ROAD London Road Railway Station (low level))

GV II

Also known as: Low Level Station GREAT NORTHERN CLOSE. Railway station, now disused. 1857. By TC Hine of Nottingham for the Great Northern Railway Co. Goods sheds and additions c1900. Restored c1987 and 1993. Red brick, with ashlar and yellow brick dressings and gabled and hipped slate roofs with tile cresting. 9 original coped brick ridge stacks, 2 similar side wall stacks. Anglo-Italian style. EXTERIOR: the main range and entrance face north, with a secondary range to the right, facing west. The ranges are linked by a single storey rounded corner. At the south end, a late C19 addition. On the south side, extensive goods sheds, and platform canopies with valanced roofs. Main range, 2 storeys plus attics; 7 bays. Plinth, quoins, first floor cornice, diaper work parapet. Windows are mainly glazing bar sashes, with round-arched dummy windows to the ground floor. Central round-arched porte-cochere with panelled pilasters, cast-iron columns, and balustrade. Behind this, a single storey range, 3 bays, with similar pilasters and balustrade. Blank round arches containing dummy windows to front and each end. Main block has a projecting central bay with rounded corners and a Venetian window flanked by side windows. Above, a shaped gable with polychrome pilasters, containing a round-arched window and clock. Behind the gable, a truncated pyramidal roof with cast-iron crest. Side bays have 2 windows. Beyond, projecting bays with 2 ground floor windows and canted upper floors with 3 windows and balustrades. End bays have a single window on each floor. Single storey range to left, 3 windows. Rounded corner, to right, has a central external stack, flanked on each side by 2 windows and a door. West front, single storey plus attics; 9 window range. First floor cornice and single coped gable. Off-centre entrance bay with pediment containing a Venetian window. Irregular fenestration to ground floor. Attics have 8 round-arched through-eaves dormers. At the south end, late C19 addition, 2 storeys; 4 window range. Cart entrance with steel lintel. Adjoining the west side, an open shed, 3 bays, with cast-iron columns and valanced wooden roof. On the south and east sides, goods sheds, 3 bays wide, with valanced platform canopies. Steel and cast-iron structure with wooden cladding and slate roofs with clerestory and glazed ventilators. The station was disused from 1900, and was used as a parcels depot from 1944-c1985. (The Buildings of England: Pevsner N: Nottinghamshire: London: 1979-: 247; Get to know Nottingham: Brand K: Thomas Chambers Hine ; an architect of Victorian Nottingham: Nottingham: 19; Palmer M & Neaverson P: Industrial Landscapes of the East Midlands: Chichester: 1992-: 141).

Listing NGR: SK5795439293