Down-Platform Canopy, Rhyl Railway Station

The building comprises Rhyl Railway Station, largely reflecting a late 19th-century remodelling, though retaining elements of the original mid-19th century station designed by Francis Thompson. The station's main block is two storeys high, built of brown brick with banded dressings of yellow and red brick, and has hipped slate roofs. The five-bay main block features an ashlar cornice punctuated by circular bosses, and a central, canted entrance porch leading to the booking hall. Horned sash windows are fitted with horizontal marginal glazing bars. Ground floor windows and doorways have cambered and shouldered heads. Historical photographs indicate a former grant porte-cochere extended across the entire front facade of the main block. Single-storey linking ranges extend to either side of the main block. The range to the left is longer and connects to a set-back office and waiting room, similarly detailed with a canted bay window (which has been altered) to the right and paired central windows to the first floor. A gabled cross range is situated at the extreme left-hand side. Beyond it is a five-bay range, partially open-fronted and arcaded with cast iron columns, foliate capitals, and pierced spandrels. This range incorporates a loading bay for parcels and luggage, and a two-bay Station Master's Office. At the extreme right-hand end is a continuation of the main platform canopy, wrapping around a boarded store at the southwest end of the platform.

The up platform is covered by a deeply pitched roof, the canopy of which cantilevers outwards to the platform edge, retaining a deep, fretted valence. The roof and canopy are supported by square-section cast iron columns and steel girders, braced longitudinally by lattice girders. Flat boarded ceilings are found on either side of the glazed central gable. The platform elevation of the main building features a rendered panelled frieze, mirroring the brick detailing of the front facade, with similar cambered and shouldered openings and sash glazing, including a canted bay window to the Tea Room.

A cast-iron column supported steel-framed footbridge, with a pitched roof and continuous wood-panelled glazing, connects the platforms. Low red-brick lift towers, topped with pyramidal roofs, are situated at either end of the footbridge. Twin flights of stairs, retaining original cast-iron balustrades with pointed heads to uprights and brass knobs to handrails—the central handrail extending across the bridge—rise from the southwest end of the up platform to manage passenger flow. A similar pair of staircases are located at the northeast end of the down-platform canopy, which is shorter than the up-platform canopy, but similarly constructed with cast-iron columns and steel girders carrying the roof and canopy with a deep fretted valence.