Description

BIRKENHEAD

SJ3289 HAMILTON STREET
789-1/9/87 (North West side)
28/03/74 Hamilton Square Station

GV II

Station. c1886. By G.E.Grayson. Brick and terracotta.
Italianate style. Hamilton Street elevation has hydraulic
tower on angle, and pedimented central block of booking hall,
with triple round-arched windows in apex and inserted lower
openings. Deep cornice band of terracotta panels. Glazed roof
to booking hall. Glazed canopy projects from this block and
from the tower. 3-bay range to left with louvred windows to
right and doorway to left, possibly generator house. 3 paired
round-headed windows above, and a row of oculi over.
Terracotta cornice and mouldings to openings. Prominent
4-stage tower with round arched windows in lower stage with
clusterd shafts. Triple round-arched windows above, then
single round-arched windows and ribbed panelled band with
paired segmentally arched windows, some now blocked. Cornice
above, then giant segmentally-arched recesses housing 2 tiers
of mullioned and transomed windows with enriched terracotta
detail. Machicolated embattled parapet then high round arched
recesses with paired windows and oculi. Clustered shafts at
angles form pinnacles. Balustraded parapet and small lead
fleche. 3 bay 3-storeyed return elevation to Bridge Street
with continuous arcading at each level. Interior of booking
hall has glazed tiled walls and queen post and collar roof
with wrought iron ties. The station was built as part of the
Mersey railway and Mersey rail tunnel, which opened in 1886.
The engineers were James Brunlees and Charles Douglas Fox.
(The Buildings of England: Pevsner N and Hubbard E: Cheshire:
Harmondsworth: 1971-).

Listing NGR: SJ3267089124

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Birkenhead Hamilton Square railway station at Wikipedia
• Wikidata Q305403

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