Barr'S Court Railway Station

HEREFORD

SO54SW BARRS COURT ROAD 683-1/3/19 (South West side) 22/10/73 Barr's Court Railway Station

II

Railway station. c1855, by Johnson of Birkenhead. Brick; steep slate roof; 9 octagonal brick chimney stacks, some grouped. EXTERIOR: central gable, flanked by protruding wings, all with stepped gables, coping and finials. Ashlar window surrounds, moulded bands, stack caps and bases. Cusped lancet windows with casements, grouped at gables. Various entrances with C20 doors. Single-storey wing to right, with steep and hipped roofs; 2 plain brick stacks. Single-storey wing to left, with hipped roof behind parapet; single octagonal stack. Platform facade has render to parapet with coping. Some coloured leaded lights, to buffet and station office, some original double doors with grooved decoration. Framed panelling with chamfer and grooved decoration to staircase. East platform has single-storey building; single plain stack; waiting room/office; toilet block in similar style; corrugated-iron roof; raised glazed louvred section with transom; ornamentation to gable parapets and carved stone springers to platform shelters with cast-iron brackets, which continue over footbridge to main complex. INTERIOR: retains fireplaces, mouldings to ceilings, window and door architraves. GWR furniture. Buffet interior has draught screen with coloured leaded lights.

Listing NGR: SO5155040566