Shelter on Island Platform at Helsby Railway Station is a Grade II listed building in the Cheshire West and Chester local planning authority area, England. First listed on 6 December 1985. Transport. 1 related planning application.
Shelter on Island Platform at Helsby Railway Station
- WRENN ID
- grey-merlon-azure
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cheshire West and Chester
- Constituency
- Runcorn and Helsby MP: Sarah Pochin (RUK)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 6 December 1985
- Type
- Transport
- Address
- Shelter on Island Platform at Helsby Railway Station, Station Avenue, WA6 0AG
- OS grid reference
- SJ 486 756
- Coordinates
- 53.2752, -2.7713
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The shelter on the island platform at Helsby Railway Station was built in 1849 for the Birkenhead Lancashire and Cheshire Junction Railway Company. It is constructed from coursed rock-faced red sandstone and features grey slate roofs. The building is a single storey and is designed in a small-scale Jacobethan style. It has a cross-wing and a long wing, which are detailed to resemble the former stationmaster's house and the main station building.
Local climate
Shelter on Island Platform at Helsby Railway Station receives an average of 940 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 72% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 61% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 30 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 64% of listed buildings. Of these, 14 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.
Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.
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