Latitude: 53.0502 / 53°3'0"N
Longitude: -3.0015 / 3°0'5"W
OS Eastings: 332963
OS Northings: 350796
OS Grid: SJ329507
Mapcode National: GBR 75.CWZ5
Mapcode Global: WH88Y.VLXH
Plus Code: 9C5R3X2X+3C
Entry Name: Wrexham General Station: Entrance Building
Listing Date: 5 September 1986
Last Amended: 31 January 1994
Grade: II
Source: Cadw
Source ID: 1855
Building Class: Transport
Also known as: Wrexham General Station
WRX
ID on this website: 300001855
Location: Close by and below the A451 bridge carrying the road NW to Mold.
County: Wrexham
Community: Rhosddu (Rhos-ddu)
Community: Rhosddu
Built-Up Area: Wrexham
Traditional County: Denbighshire
Tagged with: Railway station
GWR station building, built c1875 as a replacement for the original provided by Henry Robertson for the Shrewsbury and Chester Railway Company, formed in 1846, and absorbed by the GWR in 1854. Later extensions and enlargement of platforms, 1909-12.
Roughly coursed and squared stone with ashlar dressings and fishscale slate roof. Symmetrical single storeyed entrance range with outer pavilion blocks with wrought iron brattishing surmounted steep roofs. Central entrance in roll-moulded archway, flanked by cross-pane windows. Cornices over similar windows in pavilions (one now a doorway). Long range of offices, waiting rooms etc. Continuous to right, with similar openings.
Platform side has roll moulded arches to doorways and 4-pane fixed glazing to windows. Canopied opening links the original building with a later addition to the E in red brick with blue brick dressings. Overall platform canopy with glazed pitched roof carried on cast-iron columns with twisted enrichment to high bases, fluted shafts foliate capitals. These carry cambered iron ties with enriched scrolled rackets, supporting in turn cambered timber trusses with short chamfered king-posts. Similar brackets carry cantilevered canopy projecting to platform edge, terminating in fretted valences.
A good example of GWR station architecture, which, with its fine canopy, survives intact.
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