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Monument details

Summary

Grade II listed building. Main construction periods 1838 to 1878

Monument Types

• RAILWAY STATION (Post Medieval to Modern - 1838 AD to 2050 AD)

Full description

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The following text is from the original listed building designation:
STATION ROAD 1. 5282 Faversham Railway Station TR 05 NW 4/321 II
2. Railway station. c.1858. Down side is of yellow brick with red brick dressings. Hipped slate roof. One storey. Central section has 6 round-headed sashes with vertical glazing bars only and horns. End pilasters. Red brick voussoirs and impost blocks. Central round-headed doorcase with fanlight in pedimented surround. Plinth. Wooden canopy supported on iron brackets with scroll pattern. To east is one storey building of lower elevation with one cambered arched casement window and one cambered arched. To west is one storey portion also of lower elevation in yellow brick with hipped slate roof, red brick cornice and 4 cambered casements. Interior of Booking Hall retains original carved wooden ticket office with wooden pilasters, glazed continuous fanlight at top and 3 tiers of wooden square framing with vertical plank- ing behind plinth. Upside is also of c.1858. Yellow brick with redbrick dressings and hipped slate roof. Pilasters. 6 round-headed windows having vertical glazing bars only with red brick arches and round-headed doorcase with pedimented hood. End brick chimneystacks. The two buildings are linked by 2 contemporary white glazed tiled underpasses. 2 centre platforms with identical platform buildings. Each has 3 one storey partitions built of yellow brick with red brick dressings connected by very long wooden jettied canopy supported by iron girders and brackets with scrollwork design and 8 cast iron columns. Pavilions nearest underpass have 3 cambered tripartite windows (one on the downside platform converted into a door) and 3 cambered sashes and cambered headed doorcase with cambered fanlight and 4 panelled door, the top two panels glazed. Central pavilion similar with 7 cambered casements. End pavilion has 6 cambered casements. Each platform has square wooden ticket booth and iron spear railings to underpass with circle patterns near base. Built for the East Kent Railway line.
Listing NGR: TR0158660914 (1)

Historic England archive material: BF006479 FAVERSHAM STATION

<1> English Heritage, List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest (Map). SKE16160.

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