Description

SJ 58 NE GREAT SANKEY C.P. STATION ROAD

3/11 Sankey Railway Station

II

Railway Station, circa 1870 for the Cheshire Lines Committee. English
garden wall bond brown brick with roof of shaped grey slates. Single
storey with 2-storey cross-gable at west end (former station master's
house); single storey cross-gable at east end; 3 bay platform shelter
between cross-gables (under main roof) on octagonal cast-iron columns
with stiff-leaf capitals carrying fretted camber-arched canopies.
Bracketted eaves and verges; bargeboards with quatrefoil frets;
diminishing chimneys of stone-dressed brick; boarded doors with
Tudor-arched upper panels, facing platform; 2-light Tudor-arched
2-pane sashes.
Simple gabled enclosed passenger shelter on north platform, with
materials as main station building, has glazed screen with
diagonal-boarded panels, flanked to each side by a 1-light 2-pane
Tudor-arched sash.
A pleasing, little-altered mid Victorian station.

Listing NGR: SJ5683988574

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Sankey railway station at Wikipedia
• Wikidata Q2489669

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Recommended Books

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  Old House Care and Repair
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  Pioneers of Modern Design: From William Morris to Walter Gropius (Penguin Art & Architecture)
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  Historic Environment Law: Planning, Listed Buildings, Monuments, Conservation Areas and Objects by Harwood, Richard (2012) Paperback
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  Berkshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  The green guide for historic buildings: how to improve the environmental performance of listed and historic buildings
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  Central Leinster: Kildare, Laois and Offaly (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of Ireland)