Former waiting room, Alton Railway Station is a Grade II listed building in the Staffordshire Moorlands local planning authority area, England. First listed on 17 November 1986. Waiting room. 1 related planning application.
Former waiting room, Alton Railway Station
- WRENN ID
- empty-belfry-swift
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Staffordshire Moorlands
- Constituency
- Staffordshire Moorlands MP: Dame Karen Bradley (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 17 November 1986
- Type
- Waiting room
- Address
- Former waiting room, Alton Railway Station, Farley Lane, ST10 4BZ
- OS grid reference
- SK 070 426
- Coordinates
- 52.98147, -1.89626
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The former waiting room at Alton Railway Station dates from around 1849 and is designed in the Italianate style. It is constructed of rock-faced ashlar with chamfered rustication and smooth-faced ashlar dressings. The building features hipped pan tile roofs with bracketed overhanging eaves and an ashlar ridge stack. It is aligned east-west and faces south, with the main range at the center, a shelter to the south, and extensions to the north and west.
The structure is one storey high and consists of four bays. It has an open-fronted shelter supported by wooden piers that are bracketed to the eaves, along with a wooden fretted fringe. There are two round-headed windows with bracketed sills, and half-glazed doors on the left and right, both topped with semi-circular fanlights. The doors and windows are recessed.
Alton railway station previously served the now disused Churnet Valley Railway, which opened in 1849.
Local climate
Former waiting room, Alton Railway Station receives an average of 880 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 64% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 54% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 43 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 81% of listed buildings. Of these, 23 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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- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
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