Cardington Railway Station is a Grade II listed building in the Bedford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 17 May 1984. A C19 Railway station.
Cardington Railway Station
- WRENN ID
- peeling-steeple-cream
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Bedford
- Constituency
- North Bedfordshire MP: Richard Fuller (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 17 May 1984
- Type
- Railway station
- OS grid reference
- TL 084 473
- Coordinates
- 52.11405, -0.41774
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Cardington Railway Station is a railway station built in the late 19th century, first mentioned in the Post Office Directory of 1869. It is constructed from yellow gault brick with polychrome brick dressings, and the platform elevation is partly rendered. The station features 20th-century tile roofs and is designed in a simplified Venetian Gothic style. The main block is T-shaped, consisting of two storeys with a gable end facing the platform, and a single-storey, five-bay block to the southeast.
All openings have polychrome brick semicircular heads and semicircular hood moulds with decorative stops. Most windows are paired single lights, featuring cast iron casements with a geometric design. The passenger entrance is located in the northeastern elevation, through a six-panel door at the easternmost bay of the lower block. The eaves are adorned with a polychrome dentil cornice, and the gables are decorated with pierced wavy-edged and cusped bargeboards. There are three paired stacks, one at the intersection of the blocks and two on the two-storey block. The lower block, which is positioned at an angle to the platform side, has coped gablets above its openings but is otherwise similar to the rest of the building.
Local climate
Cardington Railway Station sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 690 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 96% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 89% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 51% of listed buildings. Of these, 15 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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