Description

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SJ 47 NE
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HELSBY C.P.
STATION AVENUE
Former Stationmaster's House and main Railway Station building Helsby Station.

GV
II

Railway station building/former stationmaster's house, now office, 1863 for the Birkenhead, Lancashire and Cheshire Junction Railway Company. Coursed rock-faced red sandstone with grey slate roofs. Cross-gable and right wing (as seen from forecourt), to house of two storeys and single-storey wing left; Jacobethan. Shaped gables; added half-glazed porch with four-panel door in corner of cross-wing; station door and windows blocked; mullioned windows, some shoulder-arched; three diminishing chimneys. Front to platform expressed similarly to forecourt front. Wing-wall to forecourt and two cast iron columns with raised strapwork and wing-wall to platform for canopies, now removed.

Listing NGR: SJ4869275629

External Links

• Helsby railway station at Wikipedia
• Wikidata Q3401861

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Recommended Books

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  Maintaining and Repairing Old Houses: A Guide to Conservation, Sustainability and Economy
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  Lancashire: Manchester and the South-East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Devon (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Sussex: East with Brighton and Hove (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  For the Record
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  Specifications for Building Conservation: Volume 1: External Structure: Practical Examples v. 2