Swanage Railway Building Swanage, England

Listed Building Data

Swanage Railway Building has been designated a Grade II listed building in England with the following information, which has been imported from the National Heritage List for England. Please note that not all available data may be shown here, minor errors and/or formatting may have occurred during transcription, and some information may have become outdated since listing.

List Entry ID
1262166
Listing Type
listed building
Grade
II
Date Listed
4 December 1986
Name
SWANAGE RAILWAY BUILDING
Location
SWANAGE RAILWAY BUILDING
Parish
Swanage
District
Purbeck
County
Dorset
Grid Reference
SZ 02794 78913
Easting
402794.0000
Northing
78913.0000

Listed Building Description

Text courtesy of Historic England. © Crown Copyright, reprinted under the Open Government License.

SWANAGE 1. Swanage Railway Building 5190 5/150 II 2.

Goods shed, now private railway repair shop 1885. Squared limestone rubble, slate roof. Long rectangular building with low pitch roof. Street front has three pairs of double doors under flat wooden canopies. 4 sixteen pane iron casement windows in segmental heads and rusticated surrounds. Small foot door to right hand end. Tall stone stack to right hand end of roof. Gable walls have large entry for trucks and a flanking window and one above. Elevation to track has 11 windows as front. Queen post roof. A good and apparently little altered example of its kind.

Listing NGR: SZ0279478913