Ticket Office And Waiting Room At Askam In Furness Railway Station

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SD27NW DUDDON ROAD, Askam In Furness 708-1/1/145 (North side) 31/01/89 Ticket office and waiting room at Askam in Furness Railway Station

GV II

Station buildings (ticket office, waiting room and lavatories) on west side of railway track. 1877. By Paley and Austin. For Furness Railway. Rock-faced and ashlar red sandstone with graduated slate roofs. Ticket office stands at right-angles to the long low waiting room, ancillary rooms and lavatories which form the principal range running N/S parallel to the railway. Ticket office: 1 storey and attic, 3 windows to platform side. Chamfered plinth, tall segmentally-arched windows, impost band and string course over: 6-pane casements, clock to central window. Round-arched gable window under deeply overhanging verges with pendent finial, external end stack to rear has offsets and cornice. Platform range: catslide roof forms pentice on 10 shaped angle brackets to cover a rank of windows with glazing bars (some boarded up), sliding door to waiting room and 3 other doorways; 2 corniced ridge stacks. North end of range ends with an elaborate gentlemen's lavatory, the roof hipped but broken by a tier of louvres and supported by shaped brackets. Rear: high plinth; 3 pairs and 2 triplets of windows as to ticket office. INTERIOR: waiting room has blue and red floor tiling; 5-bay, king-post, collar-rafter roof. Overall an imaginative, varied and careful design by an important architectural partnership. Forms a group with the other station buildings (qv).

Listing NGR: SD2148577699