Old Warehouse To North Of Former Liverpool Road Railway Station

This is a railway warehouse, built around 1830 alongside Liverpool Road Railway Station (a separately listed building) by George Stephenson and his son Robert. It is constructed of red brick in a Flemish bond pattern, with sandstone dressings and slate roofs. The building has a long, slightly curved plan, convex to the railway line and concave to the rear.

The warehouse is three storeys high, but appears as two storeys due to the raised level of the railway track. It features ten individually gabled bays arranged in pairs, with slotted pilasters between each pair and at both ends. A moulded stone cornice runs around the whole building, punctuated by a small lunette in the centre of each bay. Stone gable copings are linked by short horizontal sections.

Each pair of bays (with the exception of the right-hand pair) alternates between a segmental-headed wagon archway with a stone surround and a bay with two loading slots. Above the archway in the wagon bay are three small segmental-headed windows with bars, linked sills, and wedge lintels. In the fourth bay from the left, the wagon entrance has been raised, leaving only the heads of the windows. The right-hand pair of bays both feature a wagon archway. A hoist pulley is positioned above the lintel of the left-hand loading slot in the third bay, and altered brickwork suggests that all the loading slots originally had similar hoists.

The left-hand return wall includes a small pediment with an oculus. The three-storey, six-window right-hand return wall has a doorway with a stone surround at the ground floor level, two segmental-headed doorways at the first floor level, and a series of diminishing rectangular windows.

The rear elevation mirrors the front, with a cornice, lunettes, and pilasters incorporating small windows. It also features three-stage loading slots, paired or single, corresponding to those at the front. Most slots have hoists, except for one at the west end and two at the east end. Doorways with stone surrounds are situated next to the single loading slots, and the elevation is punctuated by small, barred windows with wedge lintels.

The interior reveals timber construction.