Corfe Castle Railway Station is a Grade II listed building in the Dorset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 24 May 1994. A Victorian Railway station. 2 related planning applications.

Corfe Castle Railway Station

WRENN ID
fading-soffit-mint
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Dorset
Constituency
South Dorset MP: Lloyd Hatton (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
24 May 1994
Type
Railway station
Period
Victorian
Address
Corfe Castle Railway Station, BH20 5EJ
OS grid reference
SY 961 820
Coordinates
50.63831, -2.05515
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Corfe Castle Railway Station is a railway station built in 1885 for the London and South Western Railway Company. It is constructed from coursed and dressed rock-faced Purbeck stone and features a plain clay tile roof that is both hipped and gabled, adorned with crested ridge tiles and moulded bargeboards. The building has axial and lateral stone stacks with moulded and weathered caps.

The layout includes a station master's house with a cross-wing at the south end, a booking hall in the center, and waiting rooms at the north end, all designed in the Victorian Gothic style. The exterior showcases a two-storey house on the right with a gabled cross-wing that has a rectangular stone bay window and three-light sash windows. There is a porch with a wooden canopy at the angle and paired sashes to the left. The one-storey and attic booking hall in the center features three sets of three-light sashes on the right with small side-lights, a central doorway with a shouldered arch, and glazed and panelled double doors, along with a hipped dormer above to the right. The single-storey waiting room on the left is set back slightly and includes three small sashes and a hipped roof with a louvred ventilator.

On the east side, there is a wooden platform canopy with gabled ends and an open roof, supported by four thin cast-iron columns with ornate pierced spandrels. The interior has not been inspected. The station was established during the construction of a branch line from Wareham to Swanage.

Local climate

Corfe Castle Railway Station receives an average of 770 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 64% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 75% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 9 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 0.3°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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