Description

NESTON

SJ3377 HADLOW ROAD, Willaston Village
794-1/10/114 (East side)
Hadlow Road Railway Station

GV II

Railway station and station house, now museum. Dated 1866; C20
alterations. For the Helsby-Parkgate line of the former
Birkenhead, Lancs and Cheshire Junction Railway. Brown brick
in Flemish bond with stone plinth and ashlar dressings;
cast-iron guttering; slate roof with crocketed cresting and
brick stacks on stone plinths with stone cornices and caps.
EXTERIOR: single-storey, 4-bay station range, with 2-storey
gable ended station house at right. Station has pairs of 2
panel doors to openings, front and rear, in doorcases with
chamfered pilasters and shouldered arches to door heads under
round arches the tympani of which contain roundel, foliage and
fruit motifs with the date on the north side only. The arches
are surmounted by ogee moulded hoodmoulds. Paired windows with
round heads, chamfered mullions and semicircular arches.
Yellow brick dentil course at eaves and cavetto moulded gable
coping.
Station house has segment headed recessed sashes in pairs,
with stone mullions and moulded imposts. 4-panel door under
stone lintel with pointed upper surface. Cavetto moulded first
floor string courses. Wall mounted gas lamp fixed to left
corner and old enamel advertisements fixed to station and
house walls. Windows throughout are sashes or 2-pane casements
with steeply sloped sills.
INTERIOR: station waiting room is separated from the ticket
office by a half-glazed wooden screen. The ticket office
contains fireplace with cast-iron grate. Waiting room contains
fireplace.
The museum is associated with the Wirral Way Footpath which
has replaced the railway line.

Listing NGR: SJ3304877322

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Hadlow Road railway station at Wikipedia
• Wikidata Q5638012

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Recommended Books

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  Northamptonshire: Buildings of England Series (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire, and Peterborough (Pevsner Architectural Guides): Written by Charles O'Brien, 2014 Edition, Publisher: Yale University Press [Hardcover]
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  Oxfordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Central Leinster: Kildare, Laois and Offaly (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of Ireland)
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  Herefordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Yorkshire: York and the East Riding (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)