Hatch Beauchamp Railway Station

Hatch Beauchamp Railway Station is a former railway station built around 1865 for the Bristol and Exeter Railway Company. It is constructed of red brick in Flemish bond with ashlar dressings and has a Welsh slate roof. The station is a single-storey building with a symmetrical five-bay elevation, where the end bays project slightly. It features chamfered ashlar quoins at the corners, a plinth with a chamfered ashlar band, an impost band, and a moulded eaves band.

The openings are designed with round arches supported by corbelled imposts. The doorways are quoined and have keystones, while the four-pane windows have pilaster jambs and corbelled sills, with all openings featuring fanlights, some of which are boarded up. The roof has deep eaves and is hipped and oversailing, supported by long iron brackets with cusped tracery in the spandrels. There are two cross-ridge stacks, with the south-eastern stack truncated and the north-western stack featuring a plinth and corbelled cornice.

The south-west front has a central four-panel double door, with the upper panels glazed. A similar doorway is located at the center of the north-east front, which has paired windows in the end bays. The two-bay south-east gable includes a doorway on the right, while the three-bay north-west end has a bricked-up window on the left and six-panel doors in the center and right.

The design of the station is influenced by plans from Isambard Kingdom Brunel. It is located on the Taunton to Chard line, which began construction in 1864 and was completed by 1866. The station shares similarities with the railway stations at Chard and Ilminster, which also served this line.