Widnes North Railway Station is a Grade II listed building in the Halton local planning authority area, England. First listed on 31 October 1983. Station. 11 related planning applications.
Widnes North Railway Station
- WRENN ID
- plain-kitchen-cobweb
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Halton
- Constituency
- Widnes and Halewood MP: Derek Twigg (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 31 October 1983
- Type
- Station
- Address
- Widnes North Railway Station, Victoria Avenue, WA8 7TJ
- OS grid reference
- SJ 512 871
- Coordinates
- 53.37855, -2.73387
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Widnes North Railway Station, built in 1872, features brown brick walls with a sandstone plinth and a slate roof. The roof includes alternate treble courses of plain and shaped slates, along with lead roll ridges. The station is a single storey with eight bays, arranged in an H plan with cross bays. The gable bargeboards of the cross wings are supported by gallows brackets and are intricately carved in three different designs.
The platform canopy boasts a three-arched fascia decorated with dagger, trefoil, and diamond motifs in quatrefoils, supported by four cast iron octagonal columns. The walls are accented with beaded quoins, and the windows are slightly Gothic-headed sashes arranged in pairs, set back in openings that have splayed reveals and heads. The mullions feature elaborate offsets and stone sills, while the stacks also have decorative offsets.
Original doors include panel infilling made of raking boards. A drinking fountain located against the station wall displays a shell and bullrush motif, with the date '1872' inscribed above it. Inside, the waiting room features a substantial plaster cornice, partially worked on the ceiling, and a fireplace surround with elaborate offsets.
Local climate
Widnes North Railway Station sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,000 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 80% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 63% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 31 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 61% of listed buildings. Of these, 15 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 11 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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