Ormskirk Railway Station, Booking Office Etc On East Side Of Track

Ormskirk Railway Station, including the booking office, dates from around 1860 to 1870 and has been altered since. The building is constructed of red brick in a Flemish bond pattern, with a slate roof. It has a rectangular plan and is in an Italianate style.

The main facade is a single-storey, 15-bay range. It features an arcade of moulded, round-headed blank arches, topped by a gabled parapet over the centre two bays, which are flanked by two redundant cast-iron columns once supporting a pitched canopy. Doorways are located in the fourth, fifth, and eighth bays, and the remaining bays have round-headed windows with four panes of glass. Tall chimneys are a feature of the design.

The platform side of the building is in a similar style, with doorways in the first, fourth, fifth, eighth, twelfth, fourteenth, and fifteenth bays. A canted bay window has been inserted into the thirteenth bay, and the other bays have round-headed windows with four panes of glass.

A modified seven-bay platform canopy is supported by the original row of 15 cast-iron columns, which have decorative caps. The columns support large cast-iron brackets that curve back to the building and extend towards the railway track, featuring circular ornamentation in the spandrels. The canopy currently has a mono-pitched roof, but remnants of the original roof shape are visible in the pitched gable lines above each pair of arches, indicating that the canopy roof initially had seven ridges running at right angles to the main building.

The building forms a group with the goods station building on the west side of the track.