Old Goods Shed is a Grade II listed building in the Dorset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 8 April 1976. Old goods shed.

Old Goods Shed

WRENN ID
stony-frieze-curlew
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Dorset
Constituency
Mid Dorset and North Poole MP: Vikki Slade (LD)
Country
England
Date first listed
8 April 1976
Type
Old goods shed
Address
Old Goods Shed, Sandford Lane, Wareham Town
OS grid reference
SY 920 882
Coordinates
50.69354, -2.11322
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Old Goods Shed, built in 1847 for the Southampton and Dorchester Railway, is a single-storey structure made of red brick with a hipped slate roof. It features two blind arches on each end elevation. On the south-west side, there are three blind arches and a round-arched window with glazing bars in the centre bay. The north-east side has five openings, including two round-arched windows with glazing bars in the two southern bays, a door leading up steps in the centre bay, a section of planked engine doors in the next bay, and another door up steps in the northern bay.

Local climate

Old Goods Shed 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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