Building record 5667 - Hooton Railway Station, Hooton Road, Hooton

<1> Ellesmere Port and Neston Borough Council, 2007, Ellesmere Port and Neston Borough Council Local List of Historic Buildings, LL24 (Index). SCH5437.

Hooton Railway Station
LL24 (Previously LL HN/3)

Address: Hooton Road, Hooton
Architect: Chester and Birkenhead Railway Co.
Date: 1863

Description

A group of 2 and 3 storey pitched roof buildings with single storey flat roof elements to south elevation, and two storey “towers” with 4 sided pyramidal roof to form truncated spire.

Stone parapets to end gables of main roofs, natural Welsh slate to all pitches.

Corbelled eaves with brick “dentil” course. Walls, common red Cheshire brick with double line of blue brick decorative string courses at various levels.

Mock “early English” shaped window heads with trefoil plate decoration tracery above in lintel spandrel.

Weatherstruck shaped stone sills (probably millstone grit, not sandstone).

Includes ancillary buildings built before 1947 such as cast iron and timber footbridges and adjacent hut.

Significantly different to the Ellesmere Port and Little Sutton Stations.

Condition

Good.

Current use
In use as Railway Station.

<2> Ordnance Survey, 1871-1882, Ordnance Survey County Series (Epoch 1) 25 inch to 1 mile - Cheshire (Maps and Plans). SCH2462.

Hooton railway station north east of Roften Works, presumably built for the Chester to Birkenhead Railway