The Old Station at Dent Railway Station is a Grade II listed building in the Yorkshire Dales National Park local planning authority area, England. First listed on 18 October 1999. Railway station. 5 related planning applications.
The Old Station at Dent Railway Station
- WRENN ID
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- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Yorkshire Dales National Park
- Constituency
- Morecambe and Lunesdale MP: Lizzi Collinge (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 18 October 1999
- Type
- Railway station
- Address
- The Old Station at Dent Railway Station, Westmorland and Furness
- OS grid reference
- SD 764 874
- Coordinates
- 54.28243, -2.36373
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Old Station at Dent railway station is a railway station booking hall and waiting rooms, now privately owned and undergoing conversion into a dwelling as of July 1994. It was likely built around 1870 for the Midland Railway Company and has been slightly altered. The building is constructed of coursed rock-faced sandstone with freestone dressings and features steeply-pitched Welsh slate roofs adorned with pierced blue ridge tiles. It has a linear plan oriented north-south, facing the track to the east, and the main range is a modified U-plan with a low wing attached at the south end, designed in a Free Tudor style.
The exterior of the main range includes two short but large gabled wings that embrace a low single-storey projected center, which is roofed at a shallower pitch. This central section features a doorway flanked by large windows with geometrical tracery. Each wing has a large segmental-pointed window with a transom and two mullions, with all lights having margin panes, a traceried oculus above, and oversailing barge-boarded eaves. There are two tall corniced ashlar chimneys on the ridge and gable barge-boarding. The south end wing is a single low storey, with a doorway flanked by a one-light window to the left and a two-light mullioned window to the right. The rear has a projected gabled center similar to the front wings, with a damaged window noted at the time of inspection, and two tall narrow windows on each side, all with transoms and margin panes. The south wing features small one and two-light windows with very small rectilinear margin panes.
The interior was not inspected. The building forms a group with the Passenger Waiting Room on the opposite side of the track and with a former workers' barracks located approximately 150 meters to the southeast.
Local climate
The Old Station at Dent Railway Station sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,310 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 95% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 92% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 64 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 99% of listed buildings. Of these, 41 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2006
- Related listed building consents — 5 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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