Main Passenger Building of the Former Potton Railway Station is a Grade II listed building in the Central Bedfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 5 February 1981. Station house.
Main Passenger Building of the Former Potton Railway Station
- WRENN ID
- tilted-roof-pigeon
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Central Bedfordshire
- Constituency
- North Bedfordshire MP: Richard Fuller (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 5 February 1981
- Type
- Station house
- Address
- Main Passenger Building of the Former Potton Railway Station, 48, Station Road
- OS grid reference
- TL 219 492
- Coordinates
- 52.12799, -0.22059
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The main passenger building of the former Potton Railway Station is a house built in 1862 by the Bedford and Cambridge Railway, which was later taken over by the Great Eastern Railway. It is constructed from yellow gault brick with ornamental dressings of red and blue bricks, along with other dressings in ashlar. The building features slate roofs and is two storeys high, with a single storey passenger wing to the north. It has sash windows and a variety of ornamental details, including brick bands, moulded dentil eaves cornices, and decorative bargeboards on the gables of the passenger building. The station house has stone coped gables and tall brick chimney stacks with moulded bases and caps. On the west side, there is a five-bay platform canopy made of iron and glass, with decorative spandrels that include the date and the letters BC. This building is a good example of railway architecture from the period and remains in relatively unaltered condition.
Local climate
Main Passenger Building of the Former Potton 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 83% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 33 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 53% 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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