The Royal Railway Shelter (Building Number 1/45) is a Grade II listed building in the Portsmouth local planning authority area, England. First listed on 13 August 1999. Railway shelter. 1 related planning application.
The Royal Railway Shelter (Building Number 1/45)
- WRENN ID
- strange-hammer-lake
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Portsmouth
- Constituency
- Portsmouth South MP: Stephen Morgan (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 13 August 1999
- Type
- Railway shelter
- Address
- The Royal Railway Shelter (Building Number 1/45), South Railway Jetty, City of Portsmouth
- OS grid reference
- SU 627 004
- Coordinates
- 50.80055, -1.11081
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Royal Railway Shelter, also known as Building No 1/45, is a railway shelter built in 1888. It features a cast-iron frame with a roof made of asphalt on wooden lining. This single-storey, open-sided structure consists of 1 x 7 bays, supported by pillars with a cross section that hold up trussed iron arches spanning a double track. The arches have flat-topped longitudinal braces with twisted iron struts. Each side of the roof has three round-arched louvred dormers with wooden archivolts. The gable finials are designed in the shape of a crowned fouled anchor. On the east side, which faces the quayside, the eaves are gableted and adorned with curved bargeboards and glass roofs.
The interior has not been inspected. Historically, this shelter was built for the use of the Royal Family when visiting the yard and is part of a group with the Royal Station. The shelter was relocated to its current position around 2002.
Local climate
The Royal Railway Shelter (Building Number 1/45) receives an average of 810 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 52% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 77% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 19 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 79% of listed buildings. Of these, 8 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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- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
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