Former Carriage Works and Locomotive Shed at Lostwithiel Railway Station is a Grade II listed building in the Cornwall local planning authority area, England. First listed on 3 August 1976. Industrial. 11 related planning applications.

Former Carriage Works and Locomotive Shed at Lostwithiel Railway Station

WRENN ID
sheer-chapel-candle
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Cornwall
Constituency
South East Cornwall MP: Anna Gelderd (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
3 August 1976
Type
Industrial
OS grid reference
SX 104 596
Coordinates
50.40583, -4.66817
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The former carriage works and locomotive shed at Lostwithiel Railway Station dates to 1859 and was possibly designed by I.K. Brunel. It was built for the Cornwall Railway. The building is constructed of random slatestone rubble with brick dressings, with some areas weatherboarded. The roofs are slate, with gable ends; a lower range has sections of asbestos slate and corrugated asbestos roofing. The building comprises two ranges arranged in a long rectangular plan, with entrances for carriages at each gable end. The main two-storey, eight-bay block has round-arched windows with iron frames and radiating heads on the first floor, arranged four to the left and four to the right. The ground floor has ten openings, consisting of windows and four doors, all with round-arched heads. The right-hand gable end has a tall sliding door to the left and a 20th-century external staircase to the right, leading to an upper-level rear door. The rear elevation has seven first-floor windows mirroring the front, with eight bays on the ground floor, including windows and doors located in the third bay from the left and the second from the right. Attached to the left of the main building is a single-storey, eleven-bay range, featuring round-arched openings with banded brick heads for windows and doors. The left-hand gable end is weatherboarded and has sliding doors. The rear of this range features a tall square brick stack with a stoke hole or inspection hole at its base, and eleven window openings with round-arched, banded brick heads, some of which are blocked. The interior was not inspected.

Local climate

Former Carriage Works and Locomotive Shed at Lostwithiel Railway Station sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 990 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 80% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 87% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 10 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 91% 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 0.2°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 — 6 transactions since 2003
  • Related listed building consents — 11 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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