Oakham Railway Station

The following buildings shall be included: SK 80 NE OAKHAM

1/1 Oakham Railway Station GV II

Railway station. 1847. Red brick with buff brick dressings and Welsh slate roof with brick ridge and end stacks. Italianate style with recessed centre between cross-wings and outer single-storey wings. 2-storey 5-window range of three 2-light casements to centre and single glazing-bar sashes with arched heads and margin lights to wings. These last in recessed giant arches with impost band. On ground floor, a loggia-like porch to centre supported on 4 square whitewashed piers. Doorways and two 12-pane sashes within. Cross-wings also have 12-pane sashes within the giant arches. Wide projecting eaves supported on pairs of shaped brackets. Single-storey block to left with further doorways and glazing- bar sashes. Similar block to right also has glazing bar sashes, those three immediately to right of main range with arched heads and margin lights. On the platform side a cast-iron canopy with decorative ironwork, further 12-pane and other glazing-bar sashes to ground floor and three 2-light casements to 1st floor. Part-glazed panelled doors with overlights. Forms a group with Oakham level Crossing Signal Box (qv) and Oakham Level Crossing Footbridge (qv).

Listing NGR: SK8568809030