FORMER ELLESMERE RAILWAY STATION

FORMER ELLESMERE RAILWAY STATION, BROWNLOW ROAD

Listed on the National Heritage List for England. Search over 400,000 listed places

Overview

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1366787
Date first listed:: 25-Mar-1990
List Entry Name:: FORMER ELLESMERE RAILWAY STATION
Statutory Address:: FORMER ELLESMERE RAILWAY STATION, BROWNLOW ROAD

The Missing Pieces Project

Share your view of unique places.

Add your contribution

Location

Location of this list entry and nearby places that are also listed. Use our map search to find more listed places.

This map is for quick reference purposes only and may not be to scale.

What is the National Heritage List for England?

The National Heritage List for England is a unique register of our country's most significant historic buildings and sites. The places on the list are protected by law and most are not open to the public.

The list includes:

🏠 Buildings
🏰 Scheduled monuments
🌳 Parks and gardens
⚔️ Battlefields
⚓ Shipwrecks

Find out more about listing

Images of England Project

To view this image please use Firefox, Chrome, Safari, or Edge.

Archive image, may not represent current condition of site.

Date:: 2002-06-19
Reference:: IOE01/06623/19
Rights:: © Mr Michael J Tuck. Source: Historic England Archive

Historic England Archive

Search over 1 million photographs and drawings from the 1850s to the present day using our images archive.

Find Photos

Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1366787
Date first listed:: 25-Mar-1990
List Entry Name:: FORMER ELLESMERE RAILWAY STATION
Statutory Address 1:: FORMER ELLESMERE RAILWAY STATION, BROWNLOW ROAD

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.

Understanding list entries

Corrections and minor amendments

This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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.

Understanding list entries

Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:: FORMER ELLESMERE RAILWAY STATION, BROWNLOW ROAD

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

District:: Shropshire (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Ellesmere Urban
National Grid Reference:: SJ3959835031

Details

The following building shall be included: 1. 5358 SJ 3935 5/61

BROWNLOW ROAD (north side) Former Ellesmere Railway Station

II

2. Railway station. 1861/2 for Cambrian Railway Company. Flemish bond brick with sandstone ashlar quoins and dressings; gabled Welsh slate roofs; brick ridge and end stacks. 2 storeys. South front of 2:4:2 fenestration with projecting outer wings. Stone lintels over 2-light cross windows and 2 half-glazed central panelled doors (glazing inserted mid C20) to ground floor; keyed semi-circular arched 6-panelled doors to former parcels office on left and station master's house on right. Keyed semi-circular arched first-floor sashes with bracketed sills; decorative oculi and cusped bargeboards to outer gables. Rear elevation, of 10-window range, has central 2-storey bay window flanked by panelled doors; canopy to former platform supported by cast-iron columns with trefoils to Gothic-style spandrels. Gable-end walls, each of 4-window range with blank central windows, have one-storey blocks with stone lintels over 2-pane sashes. Interior not inspected but noted as retaining panelled doors and some original fireplaces. Included as a good and externally complete example of a rural Victorian railway station.

Listing NGR: SJ3959835031

Legacy

The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:: 259900
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.