White Gables is a Grade II listed building in the Shropshire local planning authority area, England. Railway station.

White Gables

WRENN ID
long-ashlar-hemlock
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Shropshire
Constituency
North Shropshire MP: Helen Morgan (LD)
Country
England
Type
Railway station
Address
White Gables, Station Road, Whittington
OS grid reference
SJ 321 310
Coordinates
52.87282, -3.00971
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

White Gables is a disused railway station located on Station Road in Whittington, dating from around 1848, with later additions and alterations. The building features stuccoed stone or brick on a moulded ashlar plinth and has a slate roof adorned with cusped barge-boards, pointed finials, and pendants, all in the Tudor Gothic style. It is one storey and attic high, with a central gable that rises to two storeys, and a separate lower roof pitch to the right of the gable.

The windows are cast-iron mullioned and transomed types with latticed lights set in moulded stone surrounds. There are two windows to the left of the left entrance and one above in a gabled half-dormer. To the right of the roughly central projecting gable, there is a three-light window, with paired mullioned and transomed windows on the ground floor and an oriel window with turned wooden balusters at the corners on the first floor. The right gable end features a four-light mullioned and transomed window in a projecting bay, also with twisted balusters at the corners.

A gabled porch to the right includes a round-headed arch with Gothic tracery in the spandrels and corner posts that resemble 17th-century newel-posts. The sides of the porch have round-arched blind arcading with splat balusters and herringbone decoration on the gable. The doorways have moulded stone surrounds, with a 20th-century nail-studded plank door on the right and a similar surround with a 20th-century glazed door on the left.

At the top of the building, there is a central purple engineering brick ridge stack with a cruciform shaft and ashlar capping. A similar stack to the left originally had twin diamond-shaped shafts, but only one remains. There is also a late 19th-century single-storey addition to the left.

Local climate

White Gables receives an average of 830 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 54% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 89% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 44 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 85% of listed buildings. Of these, 24 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.

Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.

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