Monument Type(s):

• HOUSE (Mid 19th century - 1848 AD to 1848 AD)
• RAILWAY STATION (Mid 19th century to 20th century (post-war) - 1848 AD to 1960 AD)

Summary

A former railway station, dated 1848, now part converted into domestic accommodation, which is protected by Grade II Listing.

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Associated Events: None recorded

Description

Railway station, now disused although part converted to domestic accommodation. 1848 on Shrewsbury to Chester Railway with later additions and alterations. Stuccoed red sandstone; slate roof with ornamental bargeboards and pointed finials. Gothic style. 2 storeys. Entrance side has slightly projecting gable to left, gabled half-dormer to centre and narrow gabled projection to right. Mullioned and transomed latticed windows in painted stone architraves, one on each floor to left gable, one to half-dormer and to right projection on first floor. Central gabled porch has infilled Tudor-arched doorway with hollow spandrels; mullioned and transomed windows to either side, left with cill removed and 6-panel door inserted. Prominent stuccoed stack with red brick top to right of left gable and small internal end stack to right. Single-storey range to right has similar windows and tall ridge stack to centre. Former platform side has gables to left and right of slightly recessed centre section with gabled half-dormer. Similar half-dormer to single-storey range and mullioned and transomed latticed windows throughout. Peter E. Baughan, A Regional History of the Railways of Great Britain, Vol. 11, North and Mid Wales (1980), pp- 39, 45 <1><2>

Baschurch Station opened on 12/10/1848 and closed 12/9/1960. Large country station to E of village. Two platforms with large goods yard to S and E. Main station house of deliberate picturesque cottage style with steep roofs and elaborate barge-boards. Smaller cottage for crossing keeper (PRN20302) at N end of W platform opposite signal box (PRN19990). Waiting room added to E platform c. 1900. <4>

Photographs taken 20th June 2017. The goods yard is now in use as an industrial site. <5>

Recorded by National Record of Industrial Monuments. Recorded by JH Denton, 31-Dec-1964, Record No.SA79 [Historic England Archive]. <6>

1848 by T.M Penson. A rendered two-storey house with a single-storey office attached. Cottagey Tudor with emphatically overhanging bargeboarded roofs. Still a charming group, though the house has lost its cheerful little tower and diagnoally set chimneys. <7>

Sources

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