Wareham Railway Station
WAREHAM RAILWAY STATION
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1119995
- Date first listed:
- 08-Apr-1976
- List Entry Name:
- Wareham Railway Station
- Statutory Address:
- WAREHAM RAILWAY STATION
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1119995
- Date first listed:
- 08-Apr-1976
- List Entry Name:
- Wareham Railway Station
- Statutory Address 1:
- WAREHAM RAILWAY STATION
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- WAREHAM RAILWAY STATION
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Dorset (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Wareham Town
- National Grid Reference:
- SY 91955 88135
Details
1. 5190 NORTHPORT (West Side)
Wareham Railway Station SY 9188 3/171
II
2. 1886. Built by London and South Western Railway when the Wareham-swanage branch was opened. The original Southampton and Dorchester Railway station had been further east, but was moved to the present site in 1864. Red brick with ashlar dressings. Pitched tile roof. Red brick stacks with ashlar coping. 1 storey with attics. 2 coped gables with finials and kneelers; that to east shaped, topped with pediment, and with 3 pilasters taking cornice half way up; that to west has stone mullioned window, with full entablature and pediment over central part. Between gables is 1 attic dormer with pargetted front, pitched roof and casements. 2 one-storey extensions with coved eaves cornices at either end. Centre of roof ridge crowned by octagonal turret, with ogival lead roof and weather-vane. Casement windows on yard side. Sashes on platform side. Platform shelters taken on cast iron columns of eclectic design with ornamental cast iron spandrels which support roof trusses. Pitched corrugated iron roofs with cut wooden valances. Weatherboard and panelled shelters with contemporary benches on up platform. Elaborate columns gas standards on both platforms east and west of shelters.
Listing NGR: SY9195588135
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 108027
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
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