White Gables

WHITTINGTON C.P. STATION ROAD (south side) SJ 3231-3331 11/140 White Gables GV II Shown on O.S. map as Station (Disused). Railway station, now disused. Circa 1848 with later additions and alterations. Stuccoed stone or brick on moulded ashlar plinth; slate roof with cusped barge- boards, pointed finials and pendants. Tudor Gothic style. One storey and attic with 2 storeys to centre gable and under separate lower roof pitch to right of gable. Cast-iron mullioned and transomed windows with latticed lights in moulded stone surrounds, 2 to left of left entrance with one above to gabled half-dormer; similar window of 3 lights to right of roughly central projecting gable, which has paired mullioned and transomed windows to ground floor and oriel window with turned wooden balusters to corners to first floor. 4-light mullioned and transomed window in projecting bay with twisted balusters to corners to ground floor of right gable end. Gabled porch to right has round- headed arch with Gothic tracery to spandrels and corner posts carved like C17 newel-posts; round-arched blind arcading with splat balusters to sides and planted herringbone decoration to gable. Moulded stone door surround and C20 nail-studded plank door. Left entrance has similar door surround with C20 glazed door. Central purple engineering brick ridge stack with cruciform shaft and ashlar capping to top of base; similar stack to left, formerly with twin diamond-shaped shafts but only one now remaining. Late C19 single-storey addition to left. Peter E. Baughan, A Regional History of the Railways of Great Britain, Vol XI. North and mid Wales (1980), p.39.

Listing NGR: SJ3213531070