Victoria Station Including Concourse To Rear With Restaurant And Booking Hall

Victoria Station is a railway station located on Victoria Station Approach in Manchester. The original block was built in 1844 for the Manchester and Leeds Railway Company, which was also used by the Liverpool and Manchester Railway Company. It was significantly altered and enlarged in 1909 by William Dawes for the Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway Company.

The station features sandstone ashlar office blocks with slate roofs and cast-iron train sheds with slate and glazed roofs. The office blocks are arranged in an L-shape, with the original building oriented on a north-east/south-west axis and the larger addition at right angles to its north end. The 1844 block is designed in an Italianate style, now two storeys high (originally one storey) and seven bays wide, featuring square-headed doorways on either side, arcaded windows on both floors of the centre, and other windows adorned with architraves and cornices.

The 1909 block showcases a neo-Baroque style, rising four storeys and comprising 31 bays, with a rounded corner at the south-east end. It includes channelled rustication on the ground and first floors, pilasters on the second and third floors, a moulded cornice, and a balustraded parapet with wide segmental open pediments above the second, sixth, nineteenth, and twenty-ninth bays, as well as upstands with clocks over the fourth bay and the curved corner. The ground floor features round-headed windows and doorways protected by a delicate iron and glass canopy that displays the names of former destinations in Art Nouveau lettering. The upper floors mostly have square-headed and mullioned windows, including oriel windows on the second floor and Venetian windows on the third floor of the pedimented bays.

Inside, the station retains fine features such as a panelled booking hall, a restaurant with a stained glass dome and mosaic lettering, a bookstall with mosaic decoration, and a tilework map of the Lancashire and Yorkshire railway system.