Southill Station is a Grade II listed building in the Central Bedfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 6 March 1985. Former railway station.
Southill Station
- WRENN ID
- quiet-buttress-quill
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Central Bedfordshire
- Constituency
- North Bedfordshire MP: Richard Fuller (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 6 March 1985
- Type
- Former railway station
- Address
- Southill Station, Shefford Road
- OS grid reference
- TL 129 423
- Coordinates
- 52.06831, -0.3535
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Southill Station is a railway station that has been converted for residential use. It is one of the stations on the Midland Line, which opened in 1857 and was designed by C H Driver. The building is in a simplified Venetian Gothic style, constructed from yellow brick with polychrome brick dressings and has slate roofs. The layout is T-shaped, with a northeast block that has two storeys and a gable facing the platform, and a southeast block that is single storey.
On the platform side, there is a lower block within the angle that features four coped gablets. Most of the windows are paired round-headed lights with cast iron casements designed in a geometric pattern. The passenger entrance to the lower block has a gabled hood supported by curved brackets. The entrance on the northwest elevation is accessed through a porch set at an angle, which has a coped gable, and both doors feature two-centred arched heads. All openings are adorned with polychrome brick heads and moulded dripstones, while a polychrome dentil cornice runs along the eaves. The building also showcases pierced wavy-edged bargeboards and a variety of chimney stacks with moulded cornices.
Local climate
Southill 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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