Description

SJ 2929 NW OSWESTRY OSWALD ROAD

4/10004 Goods shed about 70 metres
SW of station

GV II

Railway transhipment shed, now used as museum. Circa 1874 for
the Cambrian Railway Company. English garden wall bond stock
brick with blue brick plinth weathering and band at gable end.
Asbestos tile-roof with gabled ends.
PLAN: Rectangular plan. 2 loading bay doorways on east front
to platform inside serving railway track at rear, the trains
entering from south end. On north end a later C19 weighbridge
office in lean-to.
EXTERIOR: I storey. East front has 2 large plank double doors
in elliptically headed openings and 4 large later raking
buttresses in blue engineering brick. The south end is vertical
boarded and has railway track entrance on left. The north end
has large 16-pane sash to left and small redbrick weighbridge
office with slate lean-to roof and horizontally sliding sashes
with glazing bars.
INTERIOR: Boarded platform floor and railway track to west. 7-
bay queen-post roof structure.

Listing NGR: SJ2934829740

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26553150

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Recommended Books

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  Kent: West and the Weald: The Buildings of England (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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  Drawing up a Local Listed Building Consent Order: Historic England Advice Note 6
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  Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990: Updated version
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  Old House Handbook: A Practical Guide to Care and Repair
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  Berkshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)