Booking Office, Platform And Railings

The following buildings should be added to the list;

SS9844 DUNSTER CP STATION ROAD (East side)

3/121 Booking Office, Platform and railings (formerly listed as Railway Station in Carhampton CP)

7.10.81

GV II

Booking office, raised platform and railings. Dated 1871. Booking office: squared, uncoursed red sandstone, Bath stone dressings, chamfered plinth, quoins, plain clay tiled roof, decorative ridge tiles, coped verges, external stack left gable end, rebuilt cap, similar C20 stack left of centre. Plan: booking office and waiting room. Single storey. Track side: 2-light casements flanking half glazed double doors left, two similar doors to right, all openings with rusticated surrounds. Four bay lead roofed canopy with dog tooth wooden pelmet and similar timber clad returns carried on raking brackets. Flat roofed one bay, single storey block left. Original gas lamp holder on right return. The main features of the forecourt elevation are the steeply pitched, gabled porch with deep eaves carried on curved brackets shouldered surrounds to diagonally boarded double doors, similar shouldered surrounds to paired windows flanking door, and side light beyond. Raised platform of squared and coursed lias, tarmac covered, returned on either side of booking office about 150 m in length; spearhead cast iron railings behind and gates. The West Somerset Railway line was extended from Watchet to Minehead in 1874.

Listing NGR: SS9957844744