Hellifield Station Main Passenger Building

HELLIFIELD STATION ROAD SD 85 NE (east side) 8/12 Hellifield Station, 7.4.77 main passenger building

• II

Main passenger building, c1880 for Midland Railway. Hammer-dressed stone, ashlar dressings, slate roof. Station is set on an island platform approached by an underground passage from station yard. 2 storeys, 18 bays. 5 entrances on each side have moulded surrounds with fluted consoles to lintels of 2 northernmost passageways. Tall windows have deeply splayed cills; moulded panels. All windows and most entrances are now boarded. 5 bay upper floor: 4 dormers to east, 3 to west; bargeboards. 6 ridge stacks. C20 plank extension to north and separate plank extension to south. Endorsed by extensive cast iron and glazed canopy: 12 bays on east, 11 bays on west. Elaborate columns, high pedestals flutes, pronounced entasis and eclectic capitals. Cast iron brackets and ornamental spandrels incorporate the Midland Wyvern symbol, MR logo and elaborate foliage. Interior not accessible. Late-C19 cast iron weighbridge on platform at south end of station buildings embossed MR and RD KITCHIN WARRINGTON. Cast iron railings to ramp up to platform. White ceramic tiles to underground passage: wrought iron entrance gates.

Listing NGR: SD8516057236