Festival of Britain Bus Shelter is a Grade II listed building in the Cotswold local planning authority area, England. First listed on 22 January 2008. Bus shelter.
Festival of Britain Bus Shelter
- WRENN ID
- little-tracery-crimson
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cotswold
- Constituency
- North Cotswolds MP: Sir Geoffrey Clifton-Brown (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 22 January 2008
- Type
- Bus shelter
- Address
- Festival of Britain Bus Shelter, Farmington
- OS grid reference
- SP 132 154
- Coordinates
- 51.8373, -1.80956
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Festival of Britain Bus Shelter in Farmington is a bus shelter built in 1951, designed by Gerald J Green. It is constructed from coursed Cotswold rubble stone with ashlar quoins and features a Cotswold stone slate roof. The shelter has an octagonal shape and a conical roof topped with a stone ball finial. It includes windows on the west and east sides and a small gable over the entrance that bears the inscription 'FESTIVAL OF BRITAIN 1951/ERECTED BY THE PEOPLE OF/FARMINGTON/WITH LOCAL MATERIALS'. Inside, there is a wooden bench attached to three sides of the shelter.
The idea for these bus shelters came from the Council for the Preservation of Rural England and the National Association of Parish Councils, who suggested that small parish councils could celebrate the Festival of Britain by building bus stops using local materials to blend into the landscape. Gerald J Green's design won a competition held by the National Association of Parish Councils, earning him £100. This was the first building he designed.
The bus shelter is designated at Grade II because it is a good example of a Festival of Britain bus shelter, well designed in a vernacular style and made from high-quality local materials.
Local climate
Festival of Britain Bus Shelter receives an average of 800 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 53% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 54% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 40 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 78% of listed buildings. Of these, 20 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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