Gobowen Railway Station including station name boards
Gobowen Railway Station including station name boards
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1054224
- Date first listed:
- 21-Apr-1981
- List Entry Name:
- Gobowen Railway Station including station name boards
- Statutory Address:
- Gobowen Railway Station including station name boards
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1054224
- Date first listed:
- 21-Apr-1981
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 02-Sept-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Gobowen Railway Station including station name boards
- Statutory Address 1:
- Gobowen Railway Station including station name boards
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- Gobowen Railway Station including station name boards
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Shropshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Selattyn and Gobowen
- National Grid Reference:
- SJ3030233415
Details
SJ 33 SW
5/32
SELATTYN AND GOBOWEN CP
GOBOWEN
Gobowen Railway Station including station name boards
(formerly listed as Gobowen Railway Station)
21.4.81
GV
II
Railway station. Circa 1848 by Thomas Penson Junior on the Shrewsbury and Chester Railway with later additions and alterations. Stuccoed red brick on moulded stone plinth; low-pitched hipped slate roofs have brick and ashlar ridge stacks with moulded capping and dentilled cornices. Italianate style.
Two storeys. Entrance side has three storey rectangular tower projecting to right with finial to low-pitched pyramidal roof and modillioned eaves cornice. 'Belfry' has blind round-headed arches with balustrade. Two bay centre section has round-headed sash windows to first floor, paired to right, with continuous moulded impost bands and interlacing wheel decoration to aprons. Glazing bar sashes in lugged architraves to ground floor. Projecting left range has paired round-headed sash windows to first floor. Tall double doors to centre approached by flight of three steps and flanked by round-arched sash windows. Single-storey exedra to left with dentilled cornice and four-paned sashes in lugged architraves.
Platform side has bracketed canopy, removed at time of resurvey (April 1986) to top end of platform but continued, supported by cast-iron columns, to south; cusped quatrefoils to spandrels of brackets.
Footbridge linking down-line side with up-line side has latticed cast-iron girders to covered walk-way. Single-storey yellow brick range to up-line side with round-arched sash windows and doorways; ornamental cast-iron brackets supporting canopy. Later platform canopy to south of footbridge.
Station name boards lettered "GOBOWEN /FOR / OSWESTRY" between cast-iron columns with moulded capping at north end of up-line platform and south end of down-line platform. Extensive restoration was in progress at time of resurvey (April 1986).
Listing NGR: SJ3030233415
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 255745
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Baughan, P, A Regional History of the Railways of Great Britain in North And Mid Wales, Vol. 11, (1980), 38-9
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
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