Wrexham General Station: Entrance Building, Rhosddu, Wrexham

Coordinates

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

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History

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.

Exterior

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.

Reasons for Listing

A good example of GWR station architecture, which, with its fine canopy, survives intact.

External Links

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Wrexham General Station: Entrance Building

A Grade II Listed Building in Rhosddu, Wrexham