Description

SJ 58 NE GREAT SANKEY C.P. STATION ROAD

3/11 Sankey Railway Station II

Railway Station, circa 1870 for the Cheshire Lines Committee. English garden wall bond brown brick with roof of shaped grey slates. Single storey with 2-storey cross-gable at west end (former station master's house); single storey cross-gable at east end; 3 bay platform shelter between cross-gables (under main roof) on octagonal cast-iron columns with stiff-leaf capitals carrying fretted camber-arched canopies. Bracketted eaves and verges; bargeboards with quatrefoil frets; diminishing chimneys of stone-dressed brick; boarded doors with Tudor-arched upper panels, facing platform; 2-light Tudor-arched 2-pane sashes. Simple gabled enclosed passenger shelter on north platform, with materials as main station building, has glazed screen with diagonal-boarded panels, flanked to each side by a 1-light 2-pane Tudor-arched sash. A pleasing, little-altered mid Victorian station.

Listing NGR: SJ5683988574

External Links

• Sankey railway station at Wikipedia
• Wikidata Q2489669

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