| OTD - 22nd June 1978 - Chippenham Station Building listed Posted by grahame at 06:19, 22nd June 2026 |     |
The Station Buildings at Chippenham are "listed" and came up "On this day" for me - 22nd June - for the listing was added on 22nd June 1978.
"CHIPPENHAM STATION, ENTRANCE BUILDING AND ATTACHED PLATFORM CANOPIES"
BUILDING AND ATTACHED PLATFORM CANOPIES
Heritage Category: Listed Building
Grade: II
List Entry Number: 1268119
ST9273NW COCKLEBURY ROAD 930-1/7/20 Chippenham Station, entrance 22/06/78 building and attached platform canopies (Formerly Listed as: COCKLEBURY ROAD Main entrance building, platform canopies on down platform, Chippenham Station)
II
Station building. 1856-8, for the Great Western Railway. By Rowland Brotherhood, engineer. Limestone ashlar with a plinth and eaves band; shallow-pitched hipped slate roof and moulded stack to the right. 2 blocks, both rectangular plan. EXTERIOR: single storey. Raised surrounds and bracketed sills to casement windows. The centre of the right-hand block is stepped forward; C20 double doors with overlights to each end and 2 windows to the centre, all under a flat-roofed wooden canopy with a fretted fascia and 5 substantial moulded wooden brackets. The open space between the blocks is covered by a hipped roof and a deep fretted fascia over tall spear-headed cast-iron railings, double gates and cast-iron piers with ball finials. C20 platform canopy to the rear. INTERIOR: altered.
II
Station building. 1856-8, for the Great Western Railway. By Rowland Brotherhood, engineer. Limestone ashlar with a plinth and eaves band; shallow-pitched hipped slate roof and moulded stack to the right. 2 blocks, both rectangular plan. EXTERIOR: single storey. Raised surrounds and bracketed sills to casement windows. The centre of the right-hand block is stepped forward; C20 double doors with overlights to each end and 2 windows to the centre, all under a flat-roofed wooden canopy with a fretted fascia and 5 substantial moulded wooden brackets. The open space between the blocks is covered by a hipped roof and a deep fretted fascia over tall spear-headed cast-iron railings, double gates and cast-iron piers with ball finials. C20 platform canopy to the rear. INTERIOR: altered.
also listed:
"K6 TELEPHONE KIOSK ADJACENT TO CHIPPENHAM RAILWAY STATION"
"CHIPPENHAM STATION, FORMER BRITISH RAIL OFFICE IN THE CAR PARK"
"MORTIMORES WEIGHBRIDGE OFFICE, CHIPPENHAM STATION YARD"
