NHER 42029 (Building record) - Former Harleston Station, No 37 Station Road

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Summary

Harleston Station was part of the Waveney Valley line, operating between 1855 and finally closing in 1960. Built in an Italianate style in yellow brick, the two storey building has large shaped eaves brackets and outside bays with brick pilasters. The interior has been divided up for use as offices, but for old photographic references and the general history of line please see NHER 13577.

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Location

Map sheet TM28SW
Civil Parish REDENHALL WITH HARLESTON, SOUTH NORFOLK, NORFOLK

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Former Harleston Station, No 37 Station Road.

Station on Waveney Valley Line, opened 1855. Waveney Valley Railway was begun in 1851 and opened in 1855, taken over by Great Eastern Railway in 1863 and closed in 1960.

November 1976. Listed, Grade II.
Listing Description excerpt:
"...Italianate, grey brick, low pitched slate roof with large shaped eaves brackets. Two storeys, 1:2:1 window pattern; outside bays with brick pilasters. First floor round headed windows, small at centre; ground floor flat headed windows, outside ones with brick architraves and cornices. Central round arched doorway under cornice approached by steps. Brick stacks. Platform canopy to north demolished."
Information from (S1).
Please consult the National Heritage List for England (S1) for the current listing details.
Amended by P. Watkins (HES), 7 November 2020.

October 2005.
Building has been cleaned, showing construction is in fact bright yellow brick not grey. Interior divided up for use as offices but there is a passage with round arches yet not in line with entrance door.
See (S2) in file.

For old photographic references and general history of line see NHER 13577.
E. Rose (NLA), 10 October 2005.

Station was closed in 1960. (S3)
R. Fillery-Travis (NHEP), 12th January 2007.

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  • <S1> Designation: Historic England. National Heritage List for England. List Entry 1156073.
  • <S2> Drawing: Various. Various. Architectural plans.
  • <S3> Monograph: Pevsner, N and Wilson, B. 1999. Norfolk 2: North-West and South. The Buildings of England. 2nd Edition. p 383.

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Record last edited

Nov 7 2020 2:55PM

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