Waiting Rooms SW of Crediton Station Main Range Crediton, England

Listed Building Data

Waiting Rooms SW of Crediton Station Main Range has been designated a Grade II listed building in England with the following information, which has been imported from the National Heritage List for England. Please note that not all available data may be shown here, minor errors and/or formatting may have occurred during transcription, and some information may have become outdated since listing.

List Entry ID
1197093
Listing Type
listed building
Grade
II
Date Listed
24 August 1989
Name
WAITING ROOMS IMMEDIATELY SOUTH WEST OF CREDITON STATION MAIN RANGE
Location
WAITING ROOMS IMMEDIATELY SOUTH WEST OF CREDITON STATION MAIN RANGE, STATION ROAD
Parish
Crediton
District
Mid Devon
County
Devon
Grid Reference
SX 83997 99474
Easting
283997.0000
Northing
99474.0000

Description

Railway station waiting rooms. Mid C19, either 1851 for the Exeter and Crediton Railway or, more likely, 1862 for the LSWR. Timber-framed, clad with weatherboarding, on a brick plinth; low-pitched hipped slate roof with lead rolls to hips and ridge; cast iron gutters and downpipes.

Listed Building Description

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CREDITON

SX8399 STATION ROAD 672-1/4/157 Waiting Rooms immediately south west 24/08/89 of Crediton Station Main Range

GV II

Railway station waiting rooms. Mid C19, either 1851 for the Exeter and Crediton Railway or, more likely, 1862 for the LSWR. Timber-framed, clad with weatherboarding, on a brick plinth; low-pitched hipped slate roof with lead rolls to hips and ridge; cast iron gutters and downpipes. Plan: Small rectangular 4-bay building, consisting of 2 separate waiting rooms;canopy over platform. Exterior: Single storey. Asymmetrical 4-bay front, the 3 right hand bays symmetrical. Full-height opening to left hand (east) bay. The 3 right hand bays have a central half-glazed door flanked by narrow 8-pane sashes. Canopy across the front supported on the tie beams of the main roof augmented with 5 cast iron brackets decorated with roundels, matching the main range on the opposite platform. The rear elevation and returns are blind. Interior: The inside walls are boarded, the floor paved with yellow brick. Original simple wooden benches are fixed to the walls. Original roof construction complete and exposed: substantial king post and strut trusses with short curved braces below the tie beams, which project at the front to carry the canopy. Historical Note: The complicated early history of the line, which began in 1838, led to its being known as 'The Vicar of Bray Railway', but eventually the Crediton and Exeter Railway (Act of 1845) was leased to the Bristol and Exeter Railway who converted to broad guage and opened on 12 May 1851, until the LSWR took over in 1862 (St John Thomas, pp.92-96). Delightfully simple and unspoiled station building, one of an interesting C19 group of various dates at Crediton station. (A Regional History of the Railways of Great Britain: St John Thomas, David,: The West Country: PP.92-96; The Buildings of England: Pevsner, N., & Cherry, B.,: Devon: London: P.300).

Listing NGR: SX8399799474