Kew Gardens Station London, England
Listed Building Data
Kew Gardens Station 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shown here, minor errors and/or formatting may have occurred during transcription, and some information may have become outdated since listing.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
- 1031878
- Listing Type
- listed building
- Grade
- II
- Date Listed
- 26 September 2002
- Name
- KEW GARDENS STATION
- Location
- KEW GARDENS STATION, STATION PARADE
- District
- Richmond upon Thames
- County
- Greater London Authority
- Grid Reference
- TQ 19188 76741
- Easting
- 519187.6380
- Northing
- 176740.6360
Listed Building Description
Text courtesy of Historic England. © Crown Copyright, reprinted under the Open Government License.
TQ1976 STATION PARADE 22/10/10140 Kew Gardens Station 26-SEP-02
GV II
Railway station. 1868-9 for the London South-Western Railway. Stock brick, brick and stone dressings, slate roofs. Near symmetrical, two storeys, five bays, with single storey half-hipped wing to each side. West elevation: blind arcade of round headed arches, the piers with moulded brick bases, caps and bands. Finely jointed arches in stock brick. Left and right round arched entrances, to left a pair of panelled doors, to right a single panelled door, each under glazed fanlight; sashes; all under similar round arches. First floor sashes under multiple moulded brick arches, moulded stone cill band continuing to left and right returns. Below, and at eaves, moulded brick band also continuing to returns. Boxed eaves with moulded brick brackets. Four bay flat-roofed canopy on cast iron brackets. Tall external stacks to left and right returns. Left hand wing, pair of round arched sashes and smaller round arched window, formerly ticket booth. Moulded eaves band. Similar right hand wing, formerly pair of round arched openings, one now blocked, altered opening to right. Platform elevation. Detailed as west elevation. Raised and fielded panelled doors; altered or inserted entrance to right. Sashes, one with glazing bars. Deep canopy in three unequal bays, on cast iron shafts with foliate capitals, cast iron brackets.
B.Cherry and N.Pevsner, London 2: South, 1983, p.465 & 505 D.Blomfield, Kew Past, 1994
