Chippenham Station, Entrance Building and Attached Platform Canopies is a Grade II listed building in the Wiltshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 22 June 1978. Station building. 19 related planning applications.
Chippenham Station, Entrance Building and Attached Platform Canopies
- WRENN ID
- woven-merlon-plum
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Wiltshire
- Constituency
- Chippenham MP: Sarah Gibson (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 22 June 1978
- Type
- Station building
- Address
- Chippenham Station, Entrance Building and Attached Platform Canopies, Cocklebury Road, SN15 3QE
- OS grid reference
- ST 920 737
- Coordinates
- 51.46239, -2.1153
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
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.
Local climate
Chippenham Station, Entrance Building and Attached Platform Canopies receives an average of 820 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 50% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 51% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 33 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 56% of listed buildings. Of these, 15 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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- Related listed building consents — 19 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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