Former Dover Harbour Station is a Grade II listed building in the Dover local planning authority area, England. First listed on 22 April 1994. Former railway station. 5 related planning applications.

Former Dover Harbour Station

WRENN ID
twelfth-frieze-ivory
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Dover
Constituency
Dover and Deal MP: Mike Tapp (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
22 April 1994
Type
Former railway station
OS grid reference
TR 316 405
Coordinates
51.11714, 1.30848
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Former Dover Harbour Station is a railway station built in 1861, which later served as a bonded warehouse and more recently as a training centre. It is designed in Italianate style and constructed from very large yellow bricks laid on end, with stock brick dressings and polychrome brick voussoirs. The roof is slate-covered. The southernmost part of the building was originally the Station Master's Office, featuring a projecting pedimented gable with a brick cornice and paired round-headed windows, which have been blocked at the base. On the south side, a 20th-century door has been inserted into an enlarged original window opening.

At the rear, there is a yellow brick tower with stone coping, red brick bands, and lancet windows. To the north, three cambered windows lead to the former Booking Office, which is a single-storey structure with four bays and a brick chimneystack on the left. It has a red brick modillion eaves cornice and three round-headed windows, each with top pivoting windows, featuring red and yellow brick voussoirs and a black brick band. The left side has a doorcase with a semi-circular pediment and a plank door.

Adjoining to the north is another section with three yellow brick chimneystacks. The right-hand section has five cambered blocked windows, while the left-hand section has ten round-headed windows, two of which have oculus above, along with a 20th-century door. The former First Class Waiting Room, linked by a curtain wall, has a hipped roof now covered in asbestos sheeting, a round-headed window, and 20th-century double doors. The curtain wall on the platform side features a series of round-headed arches that were filled in around 1927 when the railway station was relocated closer to the harbour, leading to the conversion of this building into a bonded warehouse.

Local climate

Former Dover Harbour Station receives an average of 780 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 59% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 84% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 8 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 94% of listed buildings. Of these, 4 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 — 2 transactions since 2023
  • Related listed building consents — 5 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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