Old Railway Station

OLD RAILWAY STATION, OSWALD ROAD

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1367339
Date first listed:
21-May-1974
List Entry Name:
Old Railway Station
Statutory Address:
OLD RAILWAY STATION, OSWALD ROAD
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1367339
Date first listed:
21-May-1974
Date of most recent amendment:
15-May-1986
List Entry Name:
Old Railway Station
Statutory Address 1:
OLD RAILWAY STATION, OSWALD 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.

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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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:
OLD RAILWAY STATION, OSWALD ROAD

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

District:
Shropshire (Unitary Authority)
Parish:
Oswestry
National Grid Reference:
SJ 29398 29815

Details

SJ 2929 NW OSWESTRY C.P. OSWALD ROAD (east side)

14/91 Old Railway Station (formerly listed as 21.5.74 Oswestry Railway Station)

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Railway station and former headquarters of the Cambrian Railway Company, now shop. Circa 1865 with later additions and alterations. Red brick on moulded stone plinth with painted stone dressings and chamfered angle quoins, hipped slate roof with 4 rendered ridge stacks. 2 storeys, decorated bracketed eaves cornice with rosettes and other emblems alternating with each bracket, moulded floor and impost bands; entrance side: 5:4:4:4:5 windows, second sets from left and right forming projecting bays, round-headed 8-paned sashes with projecting keystones and moulded cills, each ground-floor window with moulded stone rectangular panel above (square over triple windows to outer end of left and right bays); central section has corrugated iron lean-to roof supported on cast-iron brackets with C20 facia board to front,half-glazed doors. Platform side: details as on entrance side, 19 bays with full-height ashlar-faced 4-window canted bay to centre. C20 additions to front abutting right-hand end and in angle with left projecting bay are not of special architectural interest.

Listing NGR: SJ2939829815

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

Legacy System number:
255564
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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