Sankey Railway Station

Sankey Railway Station, built around 1870 for the Cheshire Lines Committee, is a railway station constructed of English garden wall bond brown brick with a roof made of shaped grey slates. The building is single storey, featuring a two-storey cross-gable at the west end, which was the former station master's house, and a single storey cross-gable at the east end. Between the cross-gables, there is a three-bay platform shelter that is supported by octagonal cast-iron columns with stiff-leaf capitals and features fretted camber-arched canopies. The station has bracketted eaves and verges, bargeboards with quatrefoil frets, and diminishing chimneys made of stone-dressed brick. The boarded doors facing the platform have Tudor-arched upper panels, and the windows are two-light Tudor-arched sashes with two panes. On the north platform, there is a simple gabled enclosed passenger shelter made from the same materials as the main station building. This shelter includes a glazed screen with diagonal-boarded panels, flanked on each side by a one-light two-pane Tudor-arched sash. Overall, this is a pleasing, little-altered mid-Victorian station.