Railway Hotel, Kirkham

Railway Hotel
The building in 2024
Location	Kirkham, Lancashire, England
Coordinates	53.78665°N 2.88421°W / 53.78665; -2.88421
Area	Borough of Fylde
Built	c. 1850
Listed Building – Grade II
Designated	11 June 1986
Reference no.	1072026
Location of Railway Hotel in the Borough of Fylde Railway Hotel, Kirkham (Lancashire)

The Railway Hotel is a building on Station Road in Kirkham, Lancashire, England. It was built around 1850, around a decade after the Preston and Wyre Railway arrived at Kirkham, and has been designated a Grade II listed building by Historic England since 1986. The Station Road on which it stands is the "lower" section, beneath today's B5192 "upper" Station Road, which passes Kirkham and Wesham railway station.

Originally a railway hotel, later a public house, it is built in brick on a stone plinth with stone dressings and a slate roof. It is in two storeys and has a three-bay front. The slightly projecting porch has rusticated quoins and a semicircular arch, and the windows have moulded architraves. On top of the building is metal lettering forming the word "THE RAILWAY", while at the roof line, above the door, is a rectangular moulding containing the word "HOTEL".

In 1996, when the property was in operation as the Railway Inn, a network of tunnels was found behind the building's cellars. It is believed another building once stood on the site, possibly Walton Hall.

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  More of its property frontage
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  Neighbouring buildings. Note its rooftop signage
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  Pictured in 2013, when it was the Railway Inn

See also

• Listed buildings in Kirkham, Lancashire

References

Sources

• Hartwell, Clare; Pevsner, Nikolaus (2009) [1969], Lancashire: North, The Buildings of England, New Haven and London: Yale University Press, ISBN 978-0-300-12667-9
• Historic England, "Railway Hotel, Kirkham (1072026)", National Heritage List for England, retrieved 31 May 2014