Rednal Station

Passenger station building for the Shrewsbury and Chester Railway Company, designed by Thomas Penson and opened in 1848.

MATERIALS: the station is built of brick with stone dressings under a slate roof.

PLAN: the building lies immediately alongside the railway line, which here runs roughly south-east to north-west.

EXTERIOR: the two-storey station building is designed in a Victorian Tudor Gothic style. Windows, which are timber with mullions and transoms, and doors all have moulded stone surrounds with varying levels of detailing; that to the main entrance door is a moulded Tudor arch with carved spandrels. This entrance is in a projecting gable which have rock-faced rustication to its edges, as does a larger gable adjacent. The tall chimneys have diagonally-placed stacks. There is a single-storey wing to the south-east with a further doorway and stone copings with a carved finial to its gable end.

The design is effectively mirrored on the elevation which faces the railway line. Historic photographs show that this originally had a covered loggia projecting which originally had a parapet roof and later a hipped roof. This loggia is no longer extant. The gables here also have carved finials.

INTERIOR: not inspected.