Northgate Railway Station is a Grade II listed building in the West Suffolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 12 July 1972. Railway station.

Northgate Railway Station

WRENN ID
fading-keystone-kestrel
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
West Suffolk
Constituency
Bury St Edmunds and Stowmarket MP: Dr Peter Prinsley (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
12 July 1972
Type
Railway station
Address
Northgate Railway Station, Out Northgate, Bury St. Edmunds
OS grid reference
TL 852 651
Coordinates
52.25349, 0.71283
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Northgate Railway Station is a railway station built around 1847 by Sancton Wood, designed in the Tudor style using red brick and stone. The station features a symmetrical layout with low wings at the east end of both the north and south platforms, twin ornamental towers, and taller station rooms and offices at the west end. The east wings have end pavilions that project slightly forward, adorned with shaped open stone pediments and circular lunettes.

On the south side, there are three semicircular arches with concentric recessed brick arches above a stone cornice that projects over the brick piers. The ground floor includes 20th-century shops and a booking hall entrance, topped with a 19th-century cut and shaped wood canopy. The north wing showcases three elliptical brick arches separated by brick piers, rising above a brick parapet and stone cornice.

Twin square towers with lead domes rise above the inner pavilions, featuring semicircular brick arches and corner pilasters topped with stone cornices, lunettes, and strapwork. At the west end, two-storey blocks with gables and parapets project about 10 feet. The first storey has a 1:3:1:3 window arrangement with stone-trimmed two and three-light mullioned and transomed windows. Gabled wings, each with one window range, also project slightly at both ends, showcasing diapered brickwork. The ground floor on the south side has various windows with open semicircular arcades to the west, while the north side features semicircular arches with lunettes and a cornice above doors and windows, along with a wall displaying blind arcading to the west.

Local climate

Northgate Railway Station sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 710 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 88% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 93% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 33 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 54% 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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