Former Stationmaster's House and Main Railway Station Building Helsby Station
Former Stationmaster's House and main Railway Station building Helsby Station, Station Avenue
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1253460
- Date first listed:
- 06-Dec-1985
- List Entry Name:
- Former Stationmaster's House and Main Railway Station Building Helsby Station
- Statutory Address:
- Former Stationmaster's House and main Railway Station building Helsby Station, Station Avenue
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- Date:
- 2001-10-05
- Reference:
- IOE01/05378/02
- Rights:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1253460
- Date first listed:
- 06-Dec-1985
- List Entry Name:
- Former Stationmaster's House and Main Railway Station Building Helsby Station
- Statutory Address 1:
- Former Stationmaster's House and main Railway Station building Helsby Station, Station Avenue
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:
- Former Stationmaster's House and main Railway Station building Helsby Station, Station Avenue
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Cheshire West and Chester (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Helsby
- National Grid Reference:
- SJ4869275629
Details
This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 2 April 2025 to amend details in the description and to reformat the text to current standards
SJ 47 NE
1/120
HELSBY C.P.
STATION AVENUE
Former Stationmaster's House and main Railway Station building Helsby Station.
GV
II
Railway station building/former stationmaster's house, now office, 1863 for the Birkenhead, Lancashire and Cheshire Junction Railway Company. Coursed rock-faced red sandstone with grey slate roofs. Cross-gable and right wing (as seen from forecourt), to house of two storeys and single-storey wing left; Jacobethan. Shaped gables; added half-glazed porch with four-panel door in corner of cross-wing; station door and windows blocked; mullioned windows, some shoulder-arched; three diminishing chimneys. Front to platform expressed similarly to forecourt front. Wing-wall to forecourt and two cast iron columns with raised strapwork and wing-wall to platform for canopies, now removed.
Listing NGR: SJ4869275629
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 436671
- 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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