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Latitude: 52.1942 / 52°11'39"N
Longitude: -2.2087 / 2°12'31"W
OS Eastings: 385830
OS Northings: 255129
OS Grid: SO858551
Mapcode National: GBR 1G5.DF8
Mapcode Global: VH92T.N3QR
Plus Code: 9C4V5QVR+MG
Entry Name: Shrub Hill Station: Waiting Room to East Platform
Listing Date: 5 April 1971
Last Amended: 12 June 2001
Grade: II*
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1390157
English Heritage Legacy ID: 489127
ID on this website: 101390157
Location: Tolladine, Worcester, Worcestershire, WR4
County: Worcestershire
District: Worcester
Electoral Ward/Division: Cathedral
Parish: Non Civil Parish
Built-Up Area: Worcester
Traditional County: Worcestershire
Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Worcestershire
Church of England Parish: Worcester, St Martin's in the Cornmarket with St Swithun and St Paul
Church of England Diocese: Worcester
Tagged with: Architectural structure
WORCESTER
SO8555SE SHRUB HILL
620-1/14/519 Shrub Hill Station: waiting
05/04/71 room to east platform
(Formerly Listed as:
SHRUB HILL
Shrub Hill Railway Station.
East Platform at Shrub Hill
Railway Station)
GV II*
Waiting room, now office and waiting room. c1880. Iron frame made
by the Vulcan Iron Works, Worcester, with panels of glazed
ceramic tiles by Maw and Company; concealed flat roof.
EXTERIOR: single storey, 3:1:3 bays, the centre is set back. Bays
articulated by paired columns with decorative capitals on plinths
which break forward from panelled dado; surmounting frieze and
modillion cornice. Bays have paired 1/1 round-arched sashes in
moulded surrounds, windows to recess have paired columns between.
Entrances in centre returns: part-glazed, double doors with
semi-circular-arched heads, glazing has Y-tracery, doors have
lower raised and fielded panels with bolection mouldings. The
tiles are richly coloured and in a variety of patterns: those o
dado have star pattern, those to frieze have Greek key.
HISTORICAL NOTE: the Vulcan Iron Works, manufacturers of railway
equipment, operated from the south side of Shrub Hill Road from
1857; by 1903 the company was known as McKenzie and Holland. The
two platforms and four lines of rails at Shrub Hill Station wee
originally covered by a curved roof of wrought-iron lattice
girders and glazed on the ridge-and-furrow principle; this was
removed c1936.
(Worcester Daily Times: Worcester at Work: Worcester: 1903-: 8;
Country Life: 23.11.1961).
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