Burscough Bridge Railway Station Building On North Side Of Track

BURSCOUGH

SD41SW RED CAT LANE 663-1/2/33 (South side) Burscough Bridge Railway Station building on N side of track

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Railway station booking hall, offices, etc. c.1855-60, altered. For the Southport and Manchester Railway Company. Snecked rock-faced sandstone, slate roofs on 2 levels. Cruciform plan formed by 2-storey range at right-angles to the track with one-storey side wings. Elizabethan style. One and 2 storeys. The facade to the track has a symmetrical 3-unit main range consisting of a projecting 2-storey gabled centre which has a 5-sided bay window with mullion-and-transom windows, a cross-window at 1st floor with quoined surround and hoodmould, and a Tudor-arched doorway in each side; and single-storey side wings with rectangular bay windows. Steeply-pitched roofs with coped gables, a ridge chimney to the centre and gable chimneys to the wings. Continued at the left end is a set-back and slightly lower extension with a Tudor-arched doorway to the left and a 6-light transomed window. Continued to the right is a flat-roofed extension in similar style, with a Tudor-arched doorway. The north entrance front has a 2-storey gabled porch to the projected centre, offset left, with a Tudor arched doorway and a cross-window above; and, attached to the left, a projecting single-storey gabled wing also with cross-windows.

Listing NGR: SD4445612419