Monument Type(s):

• FOOTBRIDGE (Mid 19th century to Unknown - 1848 AD)
• RAILWAY STATION (Mid 19th century to 21st century - 1848 AD to 2099 AD)

Summary

A railway station, dated 1848, which is protected by Grade II Listing.

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Description

Spot Listed 21/04/1981. <2>

Railway station. Circa 1848 by Thomas Penson Jun. on the Shrewsbury and Chester Railway with later additions and alterations. Stuccoed red brick on moulded stone plinth; low-pitched hipped slate roofs have brick and ashlar ridge stacks with moulded capping and dentilled cornices. Italianate style. 2 storeys.
Entrance side has 3-storey rectangular tower projecting to right with finial to low-pitched pyramidal roof and modillioned eaves cornice. 'Belfry' has blind round-headed arches with balustrade. 2-bay centre section has round-headed sash windows to first floor, paired to right, with continuous moulded impost bands and interlacing wheel decoration to aprons. Glazing bar sashes in lugged architraves to ground floor. Projecting left range has paired round-headed sash windows to first floor. Tall double doors to centre approached by flight of 3 steps and flanked by round-arched sash windows. Single-storey exedra to left with dentilled cornice and 4-paned sashes in lugged architraves.
Platform side has bracketed canopy, removed at time of resurvey (April 1986) to top end of platform but continued, supported by cast-iron columns, to south; cusped quatrefoils to spandrels of brackets. Footbridge linking down-line side with up-line side has latticed cast-iron girders to covered walk-way. Single-storey yellow brick range to upline side with round-arched sash windows and doorways; ornamental cast-iron brackets supporting canopy. Later platform canopy to south of footbridge.
Station name-boards lettered "GOBOWEN / FOR / OSWESTRY" between cast-iron columns with moulded capping at north end of up-line platform and south end of down-line platform. Extensive restoration was in progress at time of resurvey (April 1986).
Peter E. Baughan, A Regional History of the Railways of Great Britain, Vol Xl, North and Mid Wales (1980) pp38-9 <3>

Gobowen Station opened on 12/10/1848. Junction station for the S&C branch to Oswestry. Two long platforms S of level crossing with bays on both for branch traffic. Fine asymmetric station house in Italianate style situated on W platform and designed by T.K. Penson. Smaller buildings on E. Given covered footbridge and long platform canopies later. Large goods yard and spacious siding. Signal boxes N and S. <5>

Photographs taken 1st July 2017. <6>

Statement of significance prepared in a Conservation Management Plan for Cambrian Railways in 2005. Restored in the 1980s when it was in use as part of a local independent girls' school. Station platform also noted. <7>

Sources

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