Full Report for Listed Buildings
The list description is not intended to be a complete inventory of what is listed: it is principally intended to aid identification. By law, the definition of a listed building includes the entire building (i) and any structure or object that is fixed to the said building and ancillary to it and (ii) any other structure or object that forms part of the land and has done so since before 1 July 1948, and was within the curtilage of the building, and ancillary to it, on the date on which said building was first included in the list, or on 1 January 1969, whichever was later.
Summary Description
Reference Number
582
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
18/07/1990
Date of Amendment
11/09/1995
Name of Property
Railway Goods Shed
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Flintshire
Community
Flint
Town
Locality
Easting
324545
Northing
373096
Street Side
Location
Situated in former goods yard (now car park), immediately to SE of Flint Railway Station.
Description
Broad Class
Transport
Period
History
Exterior
Built circa 1860. Snecked freestone (in contrast to Francis Thompsons usual use of brick with stone dressings). Single storey, 4-bay gabled shed with pitched slate roof, oversailing eaves and verges with curved wooden brackets. Blind pilastered bays sides and gables which also have oculi in residual pediments. Former train cart openings are flanked by short screen walls with cappings and timber fender posts; tall double boarded doors on long hinges under timber lintels.
Interior
Interior retains large timber roof trusses with king posts and diagonal braces (probably formerly supporting crane).
Reason for designation
Listed for its exceptional design in stone work from early period of Chester to Holyhead line and for group value with the main station building.
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