Windsor Riverside Station and Royal waiting room is a Grade II listed building in the Windsor and Maidenhead local planning authority area, England. First listed on 2 October 1975. Railway station. 22 related planning applications.
Windsor Riverside Station and Royal waiting room
- WRENN ID
- tattered-soffit-harvest
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Windsor and Maidenhead
- Constituency
- Windsor MP: Jack Rankin (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 2 October 1975
- Type
- Railway station
- Address
- Windsor Riverside Station and Royal waiting room, Datchet Road, SL4 1QG
- OS grid reference
- SU 968 772
- Coordinates
- 51.48582, -0.60614
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Windsor Riverside Station and the Royal Waiting Room were built in 1851, designed by architect Sir William Tite. The station features red brick in a Tudor/Gothic style, accented with blue brick diapering that includes the date and Royal initials. It has a Bath stone finish and a slate roof. The central gable is topped with a tall finial, beneath which is a large four-light window. To the right of this window is a porch with three pointed arches, and to the left are two arches with depressed heads, one of which is now blocked and serves as a carriage entrance.
The southeast return wall curves alongside the platform and contains a series of arches with depressed heads, connecting the main station to the former Royal Waiting Room, which was built for Queen Victoria and is now disused. This smaller building consists of a main room and ante rooms, topped with a turret featuring a spirelet. The main room has Tudor arched windows and a canted bay with a pointed center, all adorned with stone dressings. Inside, the main room boasts a ribbed ceiling with a pendant finial.
Local climate
Windsor Riverside Station and Royal waiting room 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 87% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 82% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 32 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 59% 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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- Related listed building consents — 22 applications
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- 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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