Former Swindon Works Transport Garage, Williton Station is a Grade II listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 9 March 1993. A Victorian Machinery store.
Former Swindon Works Transport Garage, Williton Station
- WRENN ID
- ancient-iron-stoat
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Somerset
- Constituency
- Tiverton and Minehead MP: Rachel Gilmour (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 9 March 1993
- Type
- Machinery store
- Address
- Former Swindon Works Transport Garage, Williton Station, Station Road
- OS grid reference
- ST 084 417
- Coordinates
- 51.16766, -3.31063
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Former Swindon Works Transport Garage at Williton Station is a machinery store built in 1899. It features a steel frame clad with corrugated iron sheeting. The structure originally had two arched naves, but only one remains, supported by steel stanchions similar to those found in earlier station train sheds. The roof is carried by curved steel members resting on steel beams, and it has a light frame with curved ties. Originally, the building was clad in heavy gauge old Swindon pattern sheet with iron corrugations at 184mm centers, rolled at the Swindon works, but it is now covered with plastic-coated steel sheeting. The building includes glazed rooflights and timber doors at each end. It is a remarkably well-preserved and very early example of a steel-framed all-metal building. This structure was once part of an important group of Victorian industrial buildings at the Great Western Railway works and was dismantled and re-erected at Williton in 1992 after being removed from its previous site in Swindon.
Local climate
Former Swindon Works Transport Garage, Williton Station receives an average of 940 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 71% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 79% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 20 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 79% of listed buildings. Of these, 8 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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