Worcester Shrub Hill Station : 無料・フリー素材/写真
Worcester Shrub Hill Station / ell brown
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| 説明 | Worcester Shrub Hill Station from the outside on Shrub Hill.The station is Grade II listed.Shrub Hill Railway Station: Main Building with Attached Wall and Lamps, Worcester - British Listed BuildingsWORCESTERSO8555SE SHRUB HILL620-1/14/518 Shrub Hill Railway Station:05/04/71 main building with attachedwall and lamps(Formerly Listed as:SHRUB HILLShrub Hill Railway Station.East Platform at Shrub HillRailway Station)IIRailway station with attached walls and lamps. 1850-54 with lateradditions and alterations. Attributed by Pevsner to engineerEdward Wilson. Blue-brick laid in English bond with Bath-stonedressings; hipped slate roof with parapeted eaves; 7 stacks, 6 toridge and 1 to rear roof slope, all with oversailing details andpots.PLAN: Central full-width and full-height booking hall flanked bywaiting, refreshment rooms, offices etc. on 2-floors. Theelevations have a large domestic scale and style with sashwindows.EXTERIOR: West Elevation: 2 storeys and basement. 16 (4:1:6:1:4)first-floor windows. Porte-cochre with ridge-and-furrow glazedcanopy on fabricated wrought-iron lattice beams supported bycast-iron columns; ornamental timber fascia. Platform canopy onwrought-iron supports. Stone detailing includes plinth coping;ground-floor sill band; moulded string course over first-floorwindows and linking rusticated quoins and pilasters; mouldedeaves cornice with blocking course over centre 3-bays; door andwindow surrounds. First-floor windows are 3/3 with sills andmoulded architraves; windows to central bay above the canopy aresmaller 3/6 sashes in plain reveals with sills but notarchitraves. The ground-floor windows are mainly 6/6 with mouldedarchitraves; the 4 windows to each end bay have a moulded corniceon ornate scrolled console brackets with shell motif under. Thecentral window to the centre bay has a similar bracketed corniceover paired 6/6 sashes: The replacement fully-glazed flankingdoors to the booking-hall have similar moulded architrave andcornice to the windows but no console brackets. The single windowto each adjacent bay has a pediment in lieu of a cornice.Single-storey wings with concealed roofs flank the main block; 3windows in the left-wing and 4 in the right; 6/6 and 3/3 sashes,all in plain reveals with sills and wedge lintels. The rear wallsof the flanking wings extend above and beyond the building itselfto screen the platform beyond; the walls are pierced byhigh-level lunette windows with radial, metal-framed, multi-paneglazing; some of these windows form fanlights to gated openingsbelow.Platform elevation: 2 storeys, similar to but less ornate thanroad frontage with mainly 3/3 sashes to the first-floor and 6/6to the ground-floor, all in plain reveals with sills and mouldedarchitraves, those to the ground-floor being in timber withvertically boarded dado panelling below. Doors are mainly4-panel, some with 8-pane overlights, all with mouldedarchitraves.INTERIOR: little remains of the original booking hall except partof the stone-flagged floor. Some of the offices retain plastercornices, picture rails, panelled reveals to door openings andmoulded architraves.SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: parapet wall to approach road adjoinscanopy. Stucco over brick, central part sits on stone plinth withstone gutter below. Pair of ast-iron lamps on parapet wallidentified as 'Revo Tipton'.HISTORICAL NOTE: the two platforms and four lines of rails with aspan of 86 feet, were originally covered by a curved roof ofwrought-iron lattice girders and glazed on the ridge-and-furrowprinciple; this was removed c1936.(Buildings of England: Pevsner N: Worcestershire: Harmondsworth:1968-1985: 38, 325, 333; An Historical Survey of Selected GreatWestern Stations: Potts CR: An Historical Survey of Great WesternStations: Oxford: 1985-: 209; Worcester Daily Times: Not known:Worcester at Work: Worcester: 1903-: 8).Car park outside the station. |
| 撮影日 | 2011-11-18 13:42:20 |
| 撮影者 | ell brown , Birmingham, United Kingdom |
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| 撮影地 | Worcester, England, United Kingdom 地図 |
| カメラ | FinePix S1500 , FUJIFILM |
| 露出 | 0.003 sec (1/300) |
| 開放F値 | f/5.0 |