Main Building Including Booking Hall on Downside to Swaythling Railway Station is a Grade II listed building in the Southampton local planning authority area, England. First listed on 8 October 1981. Railway station. 4 related planning applications.

Main Building Including Booking Hall on Downside to Swaythling Railway Station

WRENN ID
frozen-gallery-finch
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Southampton
Constituency
Romsey and Southampton North MP: Caroline Nokes (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
8 October 1981
Type
Railway station
Address
Main Building Including Booking Hall on Downside to Swaythling Railway Station, Wessex Lane, City of Southampton, SO18 2LB
OS grid reference
SU 439 159
Coordinates
50.94113, -1.37622
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The main building, including the booking hall, at Swaythling Railway Station was constructed in 1883 and is designed in an elaborate Neo-Flemish style. It is a single-storey structure made of red brick with orange brick dressings. On the left side, there is a Flemish gable featuring a central pediment and ball finials, along with a date tablet. The building has five windows, which are 3-light casements with cambered heads, keystones, and moulded cills and aprons beneath. The roof is tiled and sweeps over the door and two windows, supported by wooden brackets. The entrance features a simple doorcase with a cambered arch.

Local climate

Main Building Including Booking Hall on Downside to Swaythling Railway Station receives an average of 830 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 53% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 78% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 18 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 82% of listed buildings. Of these, 7 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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  • Sale history — 3 transactions since 2000
  • Related listed building consents — 4 applications
  • Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
  • Flood risk assessment
  • Radon risk assessment
  • Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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