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Corfe Castle Railway Station

A Grade II Listed Building in Corfe Castle, Dorset

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Coordinates

Latitude: 50.6383 / 50°38'17"N

Longitude: -2.0551 / 2°3'18"W

OS Eastings: 396196

OS Northings: 82071

OS Grid: SY961820

Mapcode National: GBR 33G.WRW

Mapcode Global: FRA 67LD.15Z

Plus Code: 9C2VJWQV+8W

Entry Name: Corfe Castle Railway Station

Listing Date: 24 May 1994

Grade: II

Source: Historic England

Source ID: 1140121

English Heritage Legacy ID: 352127

Also known as: Corfe Castle Station
CFC

ID on this website: 101140121

Location: Corfe Castle, Dorset, BH20

County: Dorset

Civil Parish: Corfe Castle

Built-Up Area: Corfe Castle

Traditional County: Dorset

Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Dorset

Church of England Parish: Corfe Castle St Edward the Martyr

Church of England Diocese: Salisbury

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Description


CORFE CASTLE
Corfe Castle Railway Station
SY98SE
1071-0/7/10000
II
Railway station. Built in 1885 for the London and South Western Railway Company.
Coursed and dressed rock-faced Purbeck stone. Plain clay tile roof, hipped and gabled, with
crested ridge tiles and moulded bargeboards. Axial and lateral stone stacks with moulded and
weathered caps. PLAN: Station master's house with cross-wing at the south end, booking
hall at the centre and waiting rooms at the north end. Victorian Gothic style. EXTERIOR:
2-storey house on right with gabled cross-wing on its right with rectangular stone bay
window and 3-light sashes, porch with wooden canopy in angle and paired sashes to left.
One storey and attic booking hall at centre, 3:1:3 sashes on right with small side-lights,
centre doorway with shouldered arch and glazed and panelled double doors; hipped dormer
above to right. Single storey waiting room set back slightly on left with 3 small sashes and
hipped roof with louvred ventilator. On east side wooden platform canopy with gabled ends
and open roof, the tie-beams supported on four thin cast-iron columns with ornate pierced
spandrels. INTERIOR not inspected.
HISTORY: Built by the London and South Western Railway Company in 1885 when a
branch line from Wareham to Swanage was constructed.


Listing NGR: SY9619682071

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