Coventry Station, Including Attached Platform Structures is a Grade II listed building in the Coventry local planning authority area, England. First listed on 24 November 1995. Railway station. 60 related planning applications.
Coventry Station, Including Attached Platform Structures
- WRENN ID
- second-quartz-grove
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Coventry
- Constituency
- Coventry South MP: Zarah Sultana (YP)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 24 November 1995
- Type
- Railway station
- Address
- Coventry Station, Including Attached Platform Structures, Station Square
- OS grid reference
- SP 331 781
- Coordinates
- 52.40076, -1.51375
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Coventry Station, built in 1962, is a main line station designed by architect W R Headley, with project architect Derrick Shorten. The booking hall features a reinforced concrete frame, while the station platforms are supported by a steel frame. The building includes anodised aluminium windows and doors, complemented by blue engineering brick panels at the lower levels.
The station consists of a two-storey booking hall connected to an island platform and a single-sided platform via an overbridge. Each platform is covered by long steel-framed canopies with deep fascias that protect the single-storey platform buildings. The wide overbridge features staircases and lifts for platform access. The booking office is glazed on three sides, and the roof of the hall extends outwards, connecting to the overbridge roof with a continuous fascia. Station signage is integrated into panels at door head height.
The concrete columns of the booking hall and overbridge are adorned with vertical glazed tiling in white, matching the wall above the enclosed ticket office. The ceiling of the booking hall and the undersides of all platform canopies are finished with varnished hardwood strip boarding. A small courtyard is situated next to the catering facilities and the main waiting room. Additionally, a single-storey canopy surrounds the booking hall, providing shelter for bus, car, and taxi drop-off and pick-up points.
The station is noted for its outstanding architectural design, particularly its spatial qualities and detailing.
Local climate
Coventry Station, Including Attached Platform Structures receives an average of 770 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 64% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 70% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 35 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 59% of listed buildings. Of these, 17 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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