Kemble Station

Kemble Station, built in 1882 in the Tudor style, is located on the former Great Western Railway Swindon to Gloucester line, which opened in 1845. The station includes the main ticket office on the east side, an adjoining structure on the east platform, platform buildings on the west side, and a linking footbridge.

The main building, on the east side, is constructed of coursed and dressed stone with an offset plinth and a bitumenised slate roof. It has three diagonally set square flues on a stone ridge stack, and two similar at the east end. The north front features gables at each end, with a projecting gabled wing to the west, along the platform. The gables are coped with kneelers and splayed slit openings set in a flush surround. A wide, open stone Tudor archway is at the east end, leading to a disused platform and containing a half-height four-panel double door with spikes. A wooden canopy extends across the whole north front, connecting the archway and the gabled wing, and has a dagger pattern bargeboard. The main building has generally Tudor arched doorways in flush stone, alongside large chamfered stone window openings with primarily two or three-light wooden mullion and transom windows, thought to be largely original. A glazed-in walkway behind the building links it to the platform, featuring a boarded ceiling supported by a cast iron structure. The glazed-in south side has X-braced open beams supported on decorative columns, partially obscured by infilling.

The platform buildings on both sides of the line also have coursed and dressed stone rear walls with scattered door and window openings in a similar style to the main building. A sloping boarded canopy covers the platforms, supported by a cast iron structure with X-braced open beams. This is carried on nine unevenly spaced, thin fluted columns with twisted decoration at the base and flower capitals, with trefoil-pierced brackets supporting iron beams at right angles to the main beam. A dagger pattern bargeboard runs along the length of the canopy on both sides. Several original 19th-century wooden benches remain on both platforms.

A staircase leads from the platform to a footbridge across the line at the south end; this is constructed with interlaced X-bracing along the sides and has a later pitched corrugated iron roof. Apart from the loss of one small building behind the main ticket office, the station remains virtually complete and unaltered, and is in a good state of preservation.