Holywell Junction Railway Station is a Grade II* listed building in the Flintshire local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 1 October 1970. Railway station.
Holywell Junction Railway Station
- WRENN ID
- sleeping-pediment-grain
- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- Flintshire
- Constituency
- Clwyd East MP: Becky Gittins (Lab)
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 1 October 1970
- Type
- Railway station
- Address
- Holywell Junction Railway Station, Greenfield
- OS grid reference
- SJ 196 779
- Coordinates
- 53.29233, -3.20731
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
Holywell Junction Railway Station is a 19th-century building constructed of red brick, featuring an almost flat, ribbed slate roof and brick chimney stacks. The design is symmetrical, with short single-storey wings and connecting pavilions at either end. It has a cornice and a deep entablature with a band linking large rose bosses. The first floor has 12-pane sash windows with lintel and sill bands, high cornices, and moulded architraves, while blind recesses flank the central windows. There was formerly a canopy below, supported by the end pavilions.
The ground floor includes full-height round-arched openings set in square-headed frames, complete with an impost band. Small-pane sashes are located beside central half-glazed double doors, which have a blind tympanum and enriched spandrels, with blind panels on either side. There are blocked doorways in the wings. The taller pavilions feature slit ventilators, sills, cornices, and round-arched openings, with one sash missing its glazing. The end elevations also have 12-pane sashes and attached flat roof ranges with similar detailing, including retained round-arched sash glazing at the right (northwest) end. At the rear (southwest), there are three round-arched ground floor windows with sills and panelled aprons at plinth level. Internally, there are panelled doors and deep cornices.
At the time of inspection in March 1990, the station was disused and in poor condition.
Local climate
Holywell Junction Railway Station receives an average of 930 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 70% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 79% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 30 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 65% of listed buildings. Of these, 15 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.
Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.
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