Station Building, Mostyn Station

Cadw's description

Location

Located alongside the road with yard in front and railway tracks to rear.

History

The Chester to Holyhead Railway was proposed to improve links between London and Dublin. The bill was passed in July 1844 with Robert Stephenson as engineer and Francis Thompson of Derby as architect. All the stations on this railway were desgined by Thompson, and Mostyn Station was opened in 1848. The building is no longer in use as a station and was derelict at the time of inspection (March 2001).

Exterior

Station in Italianate style with 2-storey 5-bay entrance front and advanced outer bays. Constructed of dark red brick with freestone dressings, some painted, and terracotta panels. High moulded and stepped eaves, almost flat roof; 4 tall brick stacks with bracketed cornices; one pair of original chimney pots. Square-headed moulded architraves to openings, the window glazing now missing or boarded over (formerly double-hung sash and casement windows with paired central glazing bars). Banded freestone quoins to outer bays; the windows here are linked vertically with ornamental panels, each bearing a coronet over a cartouche head of Lord Mostyn with parchment scroll inscriptions beneath. Wide terracotta panel with scrolls and foliage above central doorway. This is now boarded but formerly had double panelled doors, and is flanked by single window openings. There was formerly a lean-to iron canopy over the ground floor, the cast iron openwork brackets with scrolled decoration still surviving.

Platform elevation has a straight 2-storey 5-window front, with 1-storey pavilions at outer angles, a central doorway and detailing as before. This side also had a long iron canopy, the decorative brackets still surviving. Pavilions have parapets and detail as elsewhere. Segmental-headed doorway to inner side of W pavilion, 2 small windows to platform front, and door and window to W. West end of main range is 2-window and 2-storey, the lower lights narrower. East end same to lower storey, single window above flanked by small lights which are C20 insertions. Planked door to entrance front of E pavilion; 2 doorways to E side.

Interior

No access to interior at time of inspection (March 2001).

Reason for designation

Listed as a fine small Italianate station building, and one of the few surviving buildings on this line by Francis Thompson.
Group value with railway goods shed and signal box to SE.