Former Swindon Works Transport Garage, Williton Station

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.