Gobowen Railway Station including station name boards

Gobowen Railway Station is a railway station built around 1848 by Thomas Penson Junior as part of the Shrewsbury and Chester Railway. It features stuccoed red brick construction on a moulded stone plinth and has low-pitched hipped slate roofs with brick and ashlar ridge stacks, complete with moulded capping and dentilled cornices. The station is designed in the Italianate style.

The building is two storeys high. The entrance side has a three-storey rectangular tower that projects to the right, topped with a finial and a low-pitched pyramidal roof, along with a modillioned eaves cornice. The 'belfry' section includes blind round-headed arches with a balustrade. The central two-bay section features round-headed sash windows on the first floor, with the right pair having continuous moulded impost bands and interlacing wheel decoration on the aprons. The ground floor has glazing bar sashes set in lugged architraves. To the left, there is a projecting range with paired round-headed sash windows on the first floor. The centre has tall double doors approached by three steps, flanked by round-arched sash windows. There is also a single-storey exedra to the left, which has a dentilled cornice and four-paned sashes in lugged architraves.

On the platform side, there was a bracketed canopy, which was removed during the resurvey in April 1986 at the top end of the platform but continued south, supported by cast-iron columns. The spandrels of the brackets feature cusped quatrefoils. A footbridge connects the down-line side with the up-line side, supported by latticed cast-iron girders for the covered walkway. There is a single-storey yellow brick range on the up-line side with round-arched sash windows and doorways, and ornamental cast-iron brackets supporting a canopy. A later platform canopy is located to the south of the footbridge.

The station name boards are lettered "GOBOWEN /FOR / OSWESTRY" and are positioned between cast-iron columns with moulded capping at both the north end of the up-line platform and the south end of the down-line platform. Extensive restoration work was ongoing at the time of the resurvey in April 1986.