Description

CHIPPENHAM

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.

Listing NGR: ST9208673719

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26558462

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Recommended Books

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  Old House Eco Handbook: A Practical Guide to Retrofitting for Energy-Efficiency & Sustainability
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  Warwickshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  A Buying and Owning a Listed Building: A Brief Guide
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  Harrow on the Hill: A photographic portrayal of listed buildings and structures (Historic Buildings Picture Guides)
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  Dorset (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Herefordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)