Description

The folllowing building shall be added:

STATION ROAD
TQ 37 SE 1/285
Penge East Railway
Station
II

Railway station, 1861-3 by the London Chatham and Dover Railway Co, when
it extended its Kent Line between Beckenham and Herne Hill. Yellow stock
brick with engineering brick, limestone and glazed tile dressings. Slate
roofs. Asymmetrical plan, comprising 6 bay range to platform with 2-bay
gabled wings, of 2 storeys to left, and one storey to right. Windows and
doorways have limestone imposts and keystones with incised trefoil to red
rubbed brick pointed arches, with engineering brick band over extrados of
arch. Most sashes have pointed heads to upper lights. Openings to platform
similar, but some windows do not have engineering brick band. South elevation.
Left-hand wing. Single ground floor and first floor windows with narrow
half storey light to right. Right hand return has single part glazed door,
retaining original patterned glass, beneath slated timber canopy. Right-hand
wing. Pair of ground floor windows, with oeil de boeuf in gable, encircled
by rings of red brick, yellow brick and engineering brick. Attached lean-to
to right with pair of single sashes. Main range of 4 similar sash windows
with two pairs of similarly detailed part glazed doors to 4th and 5th bays.
Moulded glazed band beneath cill level and at impost level at both storeys,
except at lowest level coupled with flush limestone band. Also limestone
bands at mid-storey levels, and across left-band gable. Red brick cornices
dentilled at gables and across right hand gable at eaves height. Stacks
at each end of main range, to let of left hand wing, and on ridge of right
hand wing, all with oversailing caps, moulded bands and red brick decoration
to the shoulders. Iron brackets at angles of gables. Oeil de boeuf to
each platform gable. Part of scheme including Penge Tunnel for which Joseph
Cubitt was Chief Engineer.

Listing NGR: TQ3540870704

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Penge East railway station at Wikipedia
• Wikidata Q2483411

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