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

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Corfe Castle railway station at Wikipedia
• Wikidata Q5170476

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  Churches: An Architectural Guide (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Introductions)
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  Cork: City and County (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of Ireland)
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  Gloucestershire 2: The Vale and The Forest of Dean: Vale and Forest of Dean Pt. 2 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  The Listed Buildings and Other Principal Structures at the Royal Gunpowder Mills Waltham Abbey
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  Dorset (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Department for Communities Listed Historic Buildings of Northern Ireland: Information Guide for the 2nd Survey of Historic Buildings