Listed Building: FORMER BRENDON HILL MINERAL RAILWAY STATION, AT NGR ST 0225 3435 (1057540)

ST03SW OLD CLEEVE CP BRENDON HILL 7/63 Former Brendon Hill Mineral Railway Station, at NGR ST 0225 3435 11.6.75 - II Mineral railway station, now store. 1861, altered late C20. Rendered over red sandstone, rusticated quoins, plinth, door and window surrounds, hipped slate roof, brick stack left, deep projecting eaves on façade, lower independently roofed gabled wings. Single storey, 1:2:1 bays, wooden casements, right wing inserted C20 window in rendered earlier doorway opening, probably to WC. Central three-quarter glazed double doors. Eaves supported at ends by C20 rendered walls with side lights, replacing original timber supports. The Brendon iron nines opened 1851; the final section of the mineral railway to the coast, the incline from Camberow to the summit at Brendon Hill opened 1861. Mining finally ceased in 1910. (VCH Somerset, vol 5, forthcoming; Sellick, The West Somerset Mineral Railway 1970). Listing NGR: ST0225034350