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Station Building, Mostyn Station

A Grade II Listed Building in Mostyn, Flintshire

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Coordinates

Latitude: 53.3202 / 53°19'12"N

Longitude: -3.2742 / 3°16'27"W

OS Eastings: 315215

OS Northings: 381122

OS Grid: SJ152811

Mapcode National: GBR 5ZK1.YH

Mapcode Global: WH76B.PT10

Plus Code: 9C5R8PCG+38

Entry Name: Station Building, Mostyn Station

Listing Date: 12 September 1984

Last Amended: 28 March 2002

Grade: II

Source: Cadw

Source ID: 544

Building Class: Transport

ID on this website: 300000544

Location: Located alongside the road with yard in front and railway tracks to rear.

County: Flintshire

Town: Mold

Community: Mostyn

Community: Mostyn

Locality: Mostyn Quay

Built-Up Area: Mostyn

Traditional County: Flintshire

Tagged with: Station building

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History

The Chester to Holyhead Railway was proposed to improve links between London and Dublin. The bill was passed in July 1844 with Robert Stephenson as engineer and Francis Thompson of Derby as architect. All the stations on this railway were desgined by Thompson, and Mostyn Station was opened in 1848. The building is no longer in use as a station and was derelict at the time of inspection (March 2001).

Exterior

Station in Italianate style with 2-storey 5-bay entrance front and advanced outer bays. Constructed of dark red brick with freestone dressings, some painted, and terracotta panels. High moulded and stepped eaves, almost flat roof; 4 tall brick stacks with bracketed cornices; one pair of original chimney pots. Square-headed moulded architraves to openings, the window glazing now missing or boarded over (formerly double-hung sash and casement windows with paired central glazing bars). Banded freestone quoins to outer bays; the windows here are linked vertically with ornamental panels, each bearing a coronet over a cartouche head of Lord Mostyn with parchment scroll inscriptions beneath. Wide terracotta panel with scrolls and foliage above central doorway. This is now boarded but formerly had double panelled doors, and is flanked by single window openings. There was formerly a lean-to iron canopy over the ground floor, the cast iron openwork brackets with scrolled decoration still surviving.

Platform elevation has a straight 2-storey 5-window front, with 1-storey pavilions at outer angles, a central doorway and detailing as before. This side also had a long iron canopy, the decorative brackets still surviving. Pavilions have parapets and detail as elsewhere. Segmental-headed doorway to inner side of W pavilion, 2 small windows to platform front, and door and window to W. West end of main range is 2-window and 2-storey, the lower lights narrower. East end same to lower storey, single window above flanked by small lights which are C20 insertions. Planked door to entrance front of E pavilion; 2 doorways to E side.

Interior

No access to interior at time of inspection (March 2001).

Reasons for Listing

Listed as a fine small Italianate station building, and one of the few surviving buildings on this line by Francis Thompson.
Group value with railway goods shed and signal box to SE.

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Other nearby listed buildings

  • II Goods Shed to SE of Mostyn Station
    Fronting the road with railway tracks to rear.
  • II Seaview Lodge
    Approximately 0.5km NE of Mostyn Hall at the N entrance to Mostyn Park, reached by private drive on the S side of the A548 at Mostyn Quay.
  • II Gate piers, gates and railings at Seaview Lodge
    Approximately 0.5km NE of Mostyn Hall at the N entrance to Mostyn Park, reached by private drive on the S side of the A548 at Mostyn Quay.
  • II Mostyn Lodge Hotel
    Fronting the S side of the road with car park to W.
  • II Mostyn No. 1 Signal Box
    Situated to the SE of Mostyn Station, set between the up and down tracks and formerly reached from the main road by a footbridge, now removed.
  • I Mostyn Hall
    Surrounded by gardens and parkland and approached from the S driveway. The former gatehouse, Porth Mawr, is to the SW and a complex of farm buildings to the W.
  • II Entrance piers, gates and bridge to Mostyn Hall
    Located at the entrance forecourt to Mostyn Hall on its SE side, the bridge carries a driveway which runs to Drybridge Lodge. A second driveway runs beneath the bridge towards the NE.
  • I Porth Mawr, Mostyn Hall
    To the SW of Mostyn Hall.

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