1 and 2, Station Houses

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SO 70 SW 2/222

HAMFALLOW BERKELEY ROAD Station Houses, Nos 1 and 2,

II Formerly part of Berkeley Road Station complex and probably station master's house, now two adjoining houses. Mid C19. Brick with stone dressings, slate roof with parapet and verges coped in stone, rear brick lateral stack and brick stack on right, originally probably on end, now abutting extension in similar style. Tudor-Gothic style.

Main range of two storeys with attic in left gable end, and smaller two storey range to right which has lower rear range. Three bays, two-light stone mullion and transom window with alternating flush quoins and stone lintels and sills to first floor, with central window higher and with pointed arch lights and square hoodmould. Three-light similar mullion and transom on ground floor flanking central projecting porch with steep coped gable, slightly dropped keystone in depressed four-centred archway and original tongued and grooved door. Range to right has one two-light on first floor, three-light on ground floor. Gable ends have decorative stonework below fascia, forming effect of crow-stepped brick gable within stone work.

A handsome building for its period, complete and virtually unaltered, and the only remaining evidence of former railway activity. It may date from opening of Bristol-Gloucester Railway in 1844 and be of I K Brunel designs

Listing NGR: SO7187400193