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Stoke Railway Station, Winton Square, Station Road
Stoke Railway Station, Winton Square, Station Road
pen drawing by Neville Malkin - July 1975

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Listed Buildings in Stoke-on-Trent and area

Stoke-on-Trent Railway Station, Winton Square, Stoke


Area
Stoke
Street
Winton Square
Heritage No.
152a
Grade
II*
Date Listed
19 April 1972
Building: Stoke-on-Trent Railway Station
Location: STOKE ON TRENT SJ84NE WINTON SQUARE, Stoke
Description:  Station. Begun in 1847 by H.A. Hunt, Elizabethan & Jacobean in style. Brick with tiled roofs.


Stoke-on-Trent Railway Station - Winton Square
Stoke-on-Trent Railway Station - Winton Square

photo: © Noel Walley - November 2004


Station. Begun in 1847 by H.A. Hunt.

Elizabethan & Jacobean in style. Brick with tiled roofs. 2-storeyed. Long facade included offices etc as well as main entrance, which forms the central section.
Outer sections of 3 bays, then a recessed block of 3 bays, flanking the central section of 5 bays slightly advanced.

Outer ranges have mullioned windows with round arched lights and flat hood moulds. Plinth, parapet eaves and moulded string courses throughout. Axial stacks. Central range of 3 ornate Dutch gables with advanced colonnade of Doric columns with pronounced entasis to ground floor entrances with frieze and fretwork parapet over.

At first floor level, mullioned windows of 4 and 2 lights each side of oriel window, with 3 tiers of lights. Strapwork frieze and fretted parapet with coat of arms above this central window.


The Elizabethian / Jacobean style North Stafford Hotel and Stoke Station opposite, are described by Pevsner as 'the finest piece of Victorian axial planning in the county'.

view along Station Road
view along Station Road
 

a relief coat of arms on the upper façade,
a relief coat of arms on the upper façade,
the shield is charged with a castle, a lion and two Stafford Knots, the surround is ornate.

 

Over the main entrance is a keystone head depicting a mustached man.
Over the main entrance is a keystone head depicting a mustached man.
 

Photos: Steve Birks   June 2001


on Stoke Railway Station

 


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Winton Square

 


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