Listed Building record MDO15419 - Central Railway Station, Bournemouth

Railway station built 1885, the most elaborate of the stations designed in the Queen Anne style for the LSWR. It was originally named Bournemouth East and was renamed Bournemouth Central in 1899, later becoming Bournemouth Station in 1967.

Railway station built to the designs of William Jacob, engineer to the London and South-Western Railway and opended 20 July 1885. Red brick walls to partly covered shed spanned by width of 4 tracks by 12 immense cross-braced riveted wrought-iron trusses, with criss-cross pattern of struts, on open foliage brackets of iron; glazed only over platforms, with 3 shallow and pitched roofs on each side, originally covered by a glazed roof of 9 longitudinal sections (the centre 3 having been removed). 2 storeys. The glazed screens at either end have been dismantled. 22 bays on southern elevation (downside) with very large buttresses in the form of brick consoles to 13 of these bays; smaller buttresses of smaller outline elsewhere. Upper storey has triplets of slender segmental-headed windows of moulded brick, separated by brick buttress piers, each topped by stucco cornice and pediment (over 2 rows of brick dentils). Projecting forebuilding with segmental-headed windows and metal canopy; single-storey annexe to east. Similar northern elevation (upside) with 2-storey projection for refreshment rooms and offices and Jacobethan-style pedimented entrance. Goods shed attached to east, in similar style with semi-circular arches, open to platform side, and lattice-girder roof. Elevations to platforms have brick pilasters on stucco fluted bases, doorcases also stucco; alternate pilasters crowned by miniature coupled pilasters and pediment. The most elaboorate of the stations designed in the Queen Anne style for the LSWR. <1,2>

The station was originally named Bournemouth East and replaced the original Bournemouth East station which was on the other side of Holdenhurst Road. It was renamed Bournemouth Central on 1 May 1899 and became Bournemouth on 10 July 1967 following the closure of Bournemouth West station.

<1> National Monuments Record, Unknown, Bournemouth Station: Buildings File (Index). SWX9117.

<2> DOE (HHR), 27 Feb 76, List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest: Borough of Bournemouth 1976 (Scheduling record). SWX3488.

<3> National Record of the Historic Environment, 507344 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

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Mar 24 2022 2:48PM