Manchester, MOSI, Former Liverpool Road Railway Station
Passenger railway station at terminus of Liverpool and Manchester Railway, now part of museum complex. 1830, by George Stephenson for the Liverpool and Manchester Railway Company, with attached house of 1808, formerly occupied by station agent; altered. Red brick, the booking offices faced with sandstone ashlar and stucco; hipped slate roofs. Rectangular plan parallel to street, with house to left and added range of former shops to right. Classical style. The BOOKING OFFICES, which back onto an embankment carrying the railway line at 1st floor level to the rear, have a 2-storey 4-bay facade (2:1:2:1 windows), symmetrical except for the 4th bay, with channelled rustication to the ground floor, panelled pilasters to the upper floor, a moulded cornice and high parapet with cornice and blocking course. The 2nd bay (the centre of the symmetrical portion, containing the entrance to the 1st Class booking hall) breaks forward slightly, has a large square-headed doorway with an architrave of coupled pilasters, moulded cornice and blocking course surmounted by a vase-pedestal sundial, and a recessed panelled door with rectangular overlight; and at 1st floor a tripartite sashed window with a cornice. The flanking bays have 15-pane sashed windows at ground floor flanked by wide segmental-headed tripartite sashed windows with glazing bars, and 12-pane sashes at 1st floor with moulded architraves. The 4th bay, containing the entrance to the 2nd Class booking hall, has a doorway at ground floor similar to the other but with single pilasters, and a 12-pane sash above like the others... HISTORY: oldest surviving passenger railway station in the world; ceased to handle passenger traffic in 1844 (when Hunt's Bank station was opened, now Victoria Station, q.v.), but continued in use as goods station until 1975. EH Listing
Manchester, MOSI, Former Liverpool Road Railway Station
Passenger railway station at terminus of Liverpool and Manchester Railway, now part of museum complex. 1830, by George Stephenson for the Liverpool and Manchester Railway Company, with attached house of 1808, formerly occupied by station agent; altered. Red brick, the booking offices faced with sandstone ashlar and stucco; hipped slate roofs. Rectangular plan parallel to street, with house to left and added range of former shops to right. Classical style. The BOOKING OFFICES, which back onto an embankment carrying the railway line at 1st floor level to the rear, have a 2-storey 4-bay facade (2:1:2:1 windows), symmetrical except for the 4th bay, with channelled rustication to the ground floor, panelled pilasters to the upper floor, a moulded cornice and high parapet with cornice and blocking course. The 2nd bay (the centre of the symmetrical portion, containing the entrance to the 1st Class booking hall) breaks forward slightly, has a large square-headed doorway with an architrave of coupled pilasters, moulded cornice and blocking course surmounted by a vase-pedestal sundial, and a recessed panelled door with rectangular overlight; and at 1st floor a tripartite sashed window with a cornice. The flanking bays have 15-pane sashed windows at ground floor flanked by wide segmental-headed tripartite sashed windows with glazing bars, and 12-pane sashes at 1st floor with moulded architraves. The 4th bay, containing the entrance to the 2nd Class booking hall, has a doorway at ground floor similar to the other but with single pilasters, and a 12-pane sash above like the others... HISTORY: oldest surviving passenger railway station in the world; ceased to handle passenger traffic in 1844 (when Hunt's Bank station was opened, now Victoria Station, q.v.), but continued in use as goods station until 1975. EH Listing