Sankey Railway Station
SANKEY RAILWAY STATION, STATION ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1230788
- Date first listed:
- 19-Jul-1984
- List Entry Name:
- Sankey Railway Station
- Statutory Address:
- SANKEY RAILWAY STATION, STATION ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1230788
- Date first listed:
- 19-Jul-1984
- List Entry Name:
- Sankey Railway Station
- Statutory Address 1:
- SANKEY RAILWAY STATION, STATION ROAD
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:
- SANKEY RAILWAY STATION, STATION ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Warrington (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Great Sankey
- National Grid Reference:
- SJ 56839 88574
Details
SJ 58 NE GREAT SANKEY C.P. STATION ROAD
3/11 Sankey Railway Station II
Railway Station, circa 1870 for the Cheshire Lines Committee. English garden wall bond brown brick with roof of shaped grey slates. Single storey with 2-storey cross-gable at west end (former station master's house); single storey cross-gable at east end; 3 bay platform shelter between cross-gables (under main roof) on octagonal cast-iron columns with stiff-leaf capitals carrying fretted camber-arched canopies. Bracketted eaves and verges; bargeboards with quatrefoil frets; diminishing chimneys of stone-dressed brick; boarded doors with Tudor-arched upper panels, facing platform; 2-light Tudor-arched 2-pane sashes. Simple gabled enclosed passenger shelter on north platform, with materials as main station building, has glazed screen with diagonal-boarded panels, flanked to each side by a 1-light 2-pane Tudor-arched sash. A pleasing, little-altered mid Victorian station.
Listing NGR: SJ5683988574
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 405824
- Legacy System:
- LBS
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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