Chippenham Station, Former British Rail Office in the Car Park is a Grade II listed building in the Wiltshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 22 June 1978. Railway office.

Chippenham Station, Former British Rail Office in the Car Park

WRENN ID
lesser-stone-thyme
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Wiltshire
Constituency
Chippenham MP: Sarah Gibson (LD)
Country
England
Date first listed
22 June 1978
Type
Railway office
Address
Chippenham Station, Former British Rail Office in the Car Park, Cocklebury Road
OS grid reference
ST 920 736
Coordinates
51.46198, -2.11598
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Chippenham Station, the former British Rail Office located in the car park, was built around 1840 by the engineer Isambard K Brunel for the Great Western Railway. The building is constructed of limestone ashlar and features a shallow-pitched hipped slate roof with wide eaves and tall moulded stacks on the end walls. It has a rectangular plan and is a single-storey structure with a symmetrical four-window range. The outer windows have plain surrounds and 20th-century closed shutters. The central entrance has moulded archivolts and plain fanlights above double three-panel doors, which are flanked by similar windows that have a platband at impost level. The windows and shutters are from the 20th century. The interior has not been inspected.

Local climate

Chippenham Station, Former British Rail Office in the Car Park 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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