Railway Station Original Building

The main station building is on the ‘up’ platform and of Italianate classical style. 2-storey, 11-window brick structure; scribed rendered 1st floor to platform side and channelled stone faced ground floor with quoins. Hipped slate roof with wide bracket eaves, brick chimney stacks (2 of which retain their eaves. Early photographs show porches with ball finials to either end; these were then enlarged to carry the overall canopies with cast iron brackets. The canopies today are later replacements, that to the road side slightly narrows at E end, and the end pavilions have been subsequently extended. Sash windows with marginal glazing bars and cornices are linked by a lintel band; central windows are blocked. Ground floor formerly had round arched openings (see ca 1855 view), now with sash windows as above and half-glazed double doors; 1 splayed bay to platform side and cut through passage at W end. Chester and Holyhead Railway monograms in round tablets at irregular intervals, 4 to each side. Tripartite window to E end wit outside stairs. Lower hipped roof 4-window range adjoins at W with similar detail and later blue-brick extension. Original name-board on platform side with lettering picked out in red and white. The canopy continues for a further 2 bays but the remaining 4-bays of this range are under a separate canopy relating to the 1920’s LMS building.