Dewsbury Railway Station, Entrance Building, Platform Building and Canopies, Footbridge and South West Office is a Grade II listed building in the Kirklees local planning authority area, England. First listed on 18 November 1977. Railway station. 21 related planning applications.
Dewsbury Railway Station, Entrance Building, Platform Building and Canopies, Footbridge and South West Office
- WRENN ID
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- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Kirklees
- Constituency
- Dewsbury and Batley MP: Iqbal Mohamed (Ind)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 18 November 1977
- Type
- Railway station
- Address
- Dewsbury Railway Station, Entrance Building, Platform Building and Canopies, Footbridge and South West Office, Wellington Road, WF13 1HF
- OS grid reference
- SE 243 217
- Coordinates
- 53.69205, -1.63287
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Dewsbury Railway Station, built in 1848 for the London and North Western Railway Company, is designed in a Tudor style. The building features ashlar stonework and pitched slate roofs. The entrance block is two storeys high with a hipped roof, a parapet, and ashlar chimney stacks. Its symmetrical facade has four bays, with single sash windows on the first floor. To the left and right are Tudor arched entrances, each with hood moulds and carved stops, alongside two six-light mullioned and transomed square-headed windows with arched lights. A glass canopy is supported by low stone side walls.
Inside, the Tudor style continues with wide chamfered door arches and a dog-leg stone staircase featuring a Gothic cast iron balustrade. The platform buildings maintain this architectural style, with glazed canopies resting on square cast iron columns. A covered, half-glazed footbridge connects to simpler buildings on the opposite side. The office building, or Station Master's house, located to the southwest, consists of three wide bays, with the central bay being two storeys tall and slightly projecting, topped with a shaped gable. It has an eight-light square-headed window on the ground floor and a six-light square-headed window on the first floor, both mullioned and transomed with arched lights above. The single-storey side bays each feature shaped parapets and six-light mullioned and transomed windows. The building is also adorned with good ashlar chimney stacks and has lower, set-back bays on each side.
Local climate
Dewsbury Railway Station, Entrance Building, Platform Building and Canopies, Footbridge and South West Office receives an average of 890 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 65% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 52% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 38 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 73% of listed buildings. Of these, 20 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.
Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.
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- Related listed building consents — 21 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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