Old Railway Station is a Grade II listed building in the Shropshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 21 May 1974. Station, shop. 3 related planning applications.
Old Railway Station
- WRENN ID
- roaming-groin-sage
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Shropshire
- Constituency
- North Shropshire MP: Helen Morgan (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 21 May 1974
- Type
- Station, shop
- Address
- Old Railway Station, Oswald Road, Oswestry, SY11 1RE
- OS grid reference
- SJ 293 298
- Coordinates
- 52.86119, -3.05009
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Old Railway Station, formerly the headquarters of the Cambrian Railway Company, is a railway station built around 1865 that has been converted into a shop. It features red brick construction on a moulded stone plinth, with painted stone dressings and chamfered angle quoins. The building has a hipped slate roof with four rendered ridge stacks and stands two storeys high.
The eaves cornice is decorated with brackets, rosettes, and emblems that alternate with each bracket. The entrance side has a window arrangement of five, four, four, four, and five, with the second sets from the left and right forming projecting bays. The round-headed windows are 8-paned sashes with projecting keystones and moulded cills. Each ground-floor window has a moulded stone rectangular panel above, with a square panel over the triple windows at the outer ends of the left and right bays. The central section has a corrugated iron lean-to roof supported on cast-iron brackets, with half-glazed doors at the entrance.
On the platform side, the details mirror those of the entrance side, featuring 19 bays and a full-height ashlar-faced four-window canted bay at the centre. There are 20th-century additions to the front at the right-hand end and in the angle with the left projecting bay, which are not of special architectural interest.
Local climate
Old Railway Station receives an average of 870 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 62% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 80% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 46 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 87% of listed buildings. Of these, 26 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 3 applications
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- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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