Swanage Railway Building is a Grade II listed building in the Dorset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 4 December 1986. A C19 Goods shed, private railway repair shop. 1 related planning application.
Swanage Railway Building
- WRENN ID
- frozen-gutter-sage
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Dorset
- Constituency
- South Dorset MP: Lloyd Hatton (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 4 December 1986
- Type
- Goods shed, private railway repair shop
- Address
- Swanage Railway Building, BH19 1DY
- OS grid reference
- SZ 027 789
- Coordinates
- 50.60991, -1.96187
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This is an 1885 goods shed, now used as a private railway repair shop. Constructed of squared limestone rubble with a slate roof, it is a long, rectangular building with a low-pitched roof. The front elevation, facing the street, features three sets of double doors, each sheltered by a flat wooden canopy. There are also four sixteen-pane iron casement windows, set within segmental-headed surrounds with rustication. A small foot door is located at the right-hand end, and a tall stone stack rises from the roof towards the right-hand end. The gable wall facing the railway line has a large opening for railway trucks, accompanied by a window below and another above. The track-facing elevation has eleven windows mirroring those on the front. The roof structure incorporates queen posts. The building appears to be largely unaltered and represents a good example of its type.
Local climate
Swanage Railway Building receives an average of 820 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 51% 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 7 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 95% of listed buildings. Of these, 3 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 7 transactions since 2012
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- 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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