Goods Shed About 70 Metres South West Of Station

SJ 2929 NW OSWESTRY OSWALD ROAD

4/10004 Goods shed about 70 metres SW of station

GV II

Railway transhipment shed, now used as museum. Circa 1874 for the Cambrian Railway Company. English garden wall bond stock brick with blue brick plinth weathering and band at gable end. Asbestos tile-roof with gabled ends. PLAN: Rectangular plan. 2 loading bay doorways on east front to platform inside serving railway track at rear, the trains entering from south end. On north end a later C19 weighbridge office in lean-to. EXTERIOR: I storey. East front has 2 large plank double doors in elliptically headed openings and 4 large later raking buttresses in blue engineering brick. The south end is vertical boarded and has railway track entrance on left. The north end has large 16-pane sash to left and small redbrick weighbridge office with slate lean-to roof and horizontally sliding sashes with glazing bars. INTERIOR: Boarded platform floor and railway track to west. 7- bay queen-post roof structure.

Listing NGR: SJ2934829740