Chippenham Station, Entrance Building And Attached Platform Canopies

Chippenham Station is an entrance building and attached platform canopies constructed between 1856 and 1858 for the Great Western Railway, designed by engineer Rowland Brotherhood. The building is made of limestone ashlar and features a plinth and eaves band, with a shallow-pitched hipped slate roof and a moulded stack on the right. It consists of two rectangular blocks, both single storey.

The exterior includes raised surrounds and bracketed sills on the casement windows. The centre of the right-hand block is stepped forward and has 20th-century double doors with overlights at each end, flanked by two windows, all sheltered by a flat-roofed wooden canopy with a decorative fretted fascia and five substantial moulded wooden brackets. The open space between the blocks is covered by a hipped roof and features a deep fretted fascia above tall spear-headed cast-iron railings, double gates, and cast-iron piers topped with ball finials. There is also a 20th-century platform canopy at the rear. The interior has been altered.