Survey Data
Reg No
31212184
Rating
Regional
Categories of Special Interest
Architectural, Artistic, Social, Technical
Original Use
Building misc
In Use As
Building misc
Date
1878 - 1897
Coordinates
100546, 283970
Date Recorded
15/08/2008
Date Updated
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Description
Detached single-bay single-storey passenger shelter, extant 1897, on a rectangular plan. "Restored", 2003. Pitched slate roof with moss-covered clay ridge tiles, lichen-covered coping to gables on "Cavetto"-detailed kneelers, and replacement uPVC rainwater goods on timber eaves. Dragged cut-limestone banded red brick English Garden Wall bond walls on dragged cut-limestone chamfered cushion course on plinth with drag edged tooled cut-limestone flush piers to corners. Square-headed opening with chamfered timber beam on timber spandrels on drag edged dragged cut-limestone corbels. Paired camber-headed window openings to side elevations with cut-limestone sills, and drag edged tooled cut-limestone surrounds having chamfered reveals framing replacement fixed-pane fittings. Set on platform in grounds shared with Westport Railway Station.
Appraisal
A passenger shelter contributing positively to the group and setting values of the Westport Railway Station complex.