Railway Station is a Grade II listed building in the West Devon local planning authority area, England. First listed on 8 October 1987. Railway station.

Railway Station

WRENN ID
waning-rafter-bone
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
West Devon
Constituency
Central Devon MP: Sir Mel Stride (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
8 October 1987
Type
Railway station
Address
Railway Station, North Tawton
OS grid reference
SS 665 000
Coordinates
50.7844, -3.89378
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Railway Station in North Tawton, built in 1865, is a disused station building and station-master's house. The structure features walls made of irregularly sized stone blocks that are coursed, topped with gable-ended slate roofs and three stone stacks—two at either end of the house and one in the center of the single-storey building.

On the left is the two-storey station-master's house, which contains two heated rooms, while the one-storey station building on the right includes a ticket office and waiting room. The house has a double-gabled front with two original sash windows, consisting of one and two lights, set in arched openings with contrasting plastered stone architraves. The central doorway features a 19th-century panelled door. The station building has a doorway to the left of center with an arched head, flanked by similar one-light windows, and a three-light window at the right end.

The rear elevation, facing the platform, mirrors the front but in reverse, and retains its original platform canopy over the recessed section, supported by ornate wrought iron brackets and a wooden fretwork frieze.

Local climate

Railway Station sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 970 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 75% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 73% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 28 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 68% of listed buildings. Of these, 12 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.

Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.

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