Mortimer Station is a Grade II* listed building in the West Berkshire local planning authority area, England. Railway station. 6 related planning applications.
Mortimer Station
- WRENN ID
- hollow-tallow-wren
- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- West Berkshire
- Constituency
- Reading West and Mid Berkshire MP: Olivia Bailey (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Type
- Railway station
- Address
- Mortimer Station, the Forehead, Stratfield Mortimer, RG7 3NY
- OS grid reference
- SU 672 641
- Coordinates
- 51.3721, -1.03571
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Mortimer Station is a railway station built in 1848 by Isambard Kingdom Brunel for the Great Western Railway. It is constructed of red brick with stock brick strings and surrounds around the openings, topped with a hipped slate roof that has deeply projecting eaves supported by cut brackets. The station is a single storey building.
The entrance front features a pair of central four-panelled doors with a fanlight above, which has radiating glazing bars and is set under a round arched head. This entrance is flanked by two groups of three single light windows with similar arched heads. A continuous projecting string course connects the doors and windows at the impost level, creating impost blocks. The platform front mirrors this design.
On the north side, the return elevation consists of three bays, including two four-panelled doors with fanlights and a central round-headed window with glazing bars and a stone cill. Mortimer Station is located on the Reading to Basingstoke line, which was constructed under Brunel's personal direction. Originally part of the Berks and Hants Extension Railway, it was taken over by the Great Western Railway before its completion. This station is noted for being one of the most unaltered of Brunel's wayside stations.
Local climate
Mortimer Station receives an average of 740 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 75% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 66% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 31 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 60% of listed buildings. Of these, 13 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 EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 6 applications
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