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Listed building outline: Torre Railway Station Including Bridge Across The Line 390725

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Torre Railway Station Including Bridge Across The Line 390725

• geometry: MULTIPOLYGON (((-3.546339 50.473074,-3.546281 50.473107,-3.546330...
• entry-date: 1975-01-10
• listed-building: 1218006
• name: Torre Railway Station Including Bridge Across The Line
• notes: Station. 1848 for Brunel's South Devon Railway, enlarged 1882. Timber-framed, clad with horizontal boarding imitating banded rustication; low-pitched slate roof, hipped at ends; stacks with brick shafts with corbelled cornices. Italianate style. PLAN: Waiting rooms and offices in a building with canopies over both forecourt and platform. Front to platform infilled but canopy intact. Covered bridge across platform. EXTERIOR: Single-storey. Forecourt elevation of original block symmetrical 1:3:1-bay front, the end bays broken forward: eaves carried over as canopy on large curved timber brackets with pendants. Outer bays have Gibbs windows with pilaster frames and keyblocks, glazed with plate-glass sashes. Simpler triple window with round-headed lights in centre, flanked by 2-leaf panelled doors each with pilaster frames, overlight above cornice on brackets. 3 bays to left and right are set back and in a matching style. The entrance to the extreme left. On the platform side there is a deep 12-bay matchboarded canopy with fretted fascia on cast-iron brackets, the spandrels with stylized foliage; columns concealed by concrete block infill. Entrance to steps to bridge with fluted columns and decorated spandrels. Bridge supported at higher end on groups of 4 columns with Egyptian decoration with iron lattice balustrades, lead hipped canopy and timber finials. INTERIOR: Not inspected. HISTORY: The station was opened on 18 December 1848. The first train decorated with evergreens and flags covered the 6 miles between Newton and Torre in 13 minutes (Ellis). (Ellis CA: An Historical Survey of Torquay, 2nd edition: 1930-: P.427-428). Listing NGR: SX9035564847
• reference: 390725
• start-date: 1975-01-10