Old Railway Station

SJ 2929 NW OSWESTRY C.P. OSWALD ROAD (east side)

14/91 Old Railway Station (formerly listed as 21.5.74 Oswestry Railway Station)

GV II

Railway station and former headquarters of the Cambrian Railway Company, now shop. Circa 1865 with later additions and alterations. Red brick on moulded stone plinth with painted stone dressings and chamfered angle quoins, hipped slate roof with 4 rendered ridge stacks. 2 storeys, decorated bracketed eaves cornice with rosettes and other emblems alternating with each bracket, moulded floor and impost bands; entrance side: 5:4:4:4:5 windows, second sets from left and right forming projecting bays, round-headed 8-paned sashes with projecting keystones and moulded cills, each ground-floor window with moulded stone rectangular panel above (square over triple windows to outer end of left and right bays); central section has corrugated iron lean-to roof supported on cast-iron brackets with C20 facia board to front,half-glazed doors. Platform side: details as on entrance side, 19 bays with full-height ashlar-faced 4-window canted bay to centre. C20 additions to front abutting right-hand end and in angle with left projecting bay are not of special architectural interest.

Listing NGR: SJ2939829815