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Railway Hotel
The building in 2024
Location	Kirkham, Lancashire, England
Coordinates	53°47′12″N 2°53′03″W / 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
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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 (only visible from upper Station Road) is metal lettering forming the word "THE RAILWAY", while at the roof line, above the door, is a rectangular panel 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.

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

See also

• Listed buildings in Kirkham, Lancashire

References

1. ^ Historic England & 1072026
2. A Walk on the Wild Side (29 May 2022). A tour of Kirkham & Wesham Lancashire. Retrieved 10 October 2024 – via YouTube.
3. Hartwell & Pevsner (2009), p. 358
4. "Riddle of pub ghost". Lancashire Telegraph. 29 August 1996. ISSN 0307-1235. Retrieved 8 October 2024.

Sources

• Hartwell, Clare; Pevsner, Nikolaus (2009) , 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

v t e Buildings and structures in the Borough of Fylde
Grade I	Lytham Hall
Grade II*	Places of worship Lytham: St Cuthbert St John Kirkham: St Michael
Grade II	Burlingtons Bar By the Way Ivy House Lifeboat Memorial, Lytham Lifeboat Monument, St Annes Lytham Windmill Malt Kiln Farmhouse Railway Hotel, Kirkham St Annes-on-the-Sea Carnegie Library St Anne's Pier Places of worship Kirkham: St John the Evangelist St Annes-on-the-Sea: St Anne St Thomas Singleton: St Anne Weeton: St Michael Wesham: Christ Church Wrea Green: St Nicholas
Unlisted	Cartford Bridge The Cartford Inn The Eagle at Weeton HM Prison Kirkham Lytham Hospital Lytham St Annes Town Hall Shard Bridge Springfields Warton Aerodrome Weeton Barracks Places of worship Clifton (Lund): St John the Evangelist
Demolished	Lytham Priory Lytham Pier
Listed in	Bryning-with-Warton Elswick Freckleton Greenhalgh-with-Thistleton Kirkham Little Eccleston-with-Larbreck Lytham Medlar-with-Wesham Newton-with-Clifton Ribby-with-Wrea St Annes Singleton Staining Treales, Roseacre and Wharles Weeton-with-Preese Westby-with-Plumptons

• 1850 establishments in England
• Grade II listed pubs in Lancashire
• Hotels in Lancashire
• Buildings and structures in the Borough of Fylde
• Listed hotels in the United Kingdom
• Kirkham, Lancashire