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West Brompton Station Including Booking Hall and Train Shed and Staircases and Retaining Wall

A Grade II Listed Building in Redcliffe, London

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Coordinates

Latitude: 51.4873 / 51°29'14"N

Longitude: -0.1955 / 0°11'43"W

OS Eastings: 525382

OS Northings: 178022

OS Grid: TQ253780

Mapcode National: GBR 0P.91

Mapcode Global: VHGQY.KWH7

Plus Code: 9C3XFRP3+WQ

Entry Name: West Brompton Station Including Booking Hall and Train Shed and Staircases and Retaining Wall

Listing Date: 3 October 2000

Grade: II

Source: Historic England

Source ID: 1385365

English Heritage Legacy ID: 485827

Also known as: West Brompton railway station
West Brompton tube station
West Brompton Underground station
WBP

ID on this website: 101385365

Location: West Brompton, Kensington and Chelsea, London, SW5

County: London

District: Kensington and Chelsea

Electoral Ward/Division: Redcliffe

Parish: Non Civil Parish

Built-Up Area: Kensington and Chelsea

Traditional County: Middlesex

Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Greater London

Church of England Parish: St Luke, South Kensington

Church of England Diocese: London

Tagged with: London Underground station

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Description


TQ 2578 SW OLD BROMPTON ROAD
249/52/10211 West Brompton Station, including
03-OCT-00 Booking Hall, train shed,staircases
and retaining wall

II

Underground station. Opened 12th April 1869 as an extension of the Metropolitan Railway and first District Line through trains ran on 1st August 1870. Designed by Sir John Fowler, engineer to both companies, in Classical style. Some alterations to Booking hall c1928 and refurbished c1990. Booking Hall is built of white Suffolk bricks with slate pavilion roof. Left side brick chimneystacks but tall original stacks replaced. together with original cresting. One storey , originally symmetrical with four round-headed arched windows with keystone linked by impost blocks flanking larger similar central door. In 1928 the former ladies' room on the right was rebuilt for retain space and the two right hand windows changed into a large window under segmental-headed arch with keystone. The lower part has been altered in the later C20. Left side retains one original window but the left window was later converted into a secondary entrance leaving the outline of the original arch visible. Panelled parapet, moulded cornice and panelled band below the cornice. Parapet originally had urn finials at the corners and ball finials to the centre. Originally there was also on each side a lower height porch with round-headed arch with central keystone but only the right hand one survives with blocked doorcase. Ticket hall refurbished in later C20. Rear wall on to train shed has five round-headed arches, three of which are blocked. Original train shed with brick blank arcaded retaining walls with round-headed arches with keystones and impost blocks, extending also along full length of one platform. Engine shed is about 66 feet long having 6 bays of brick arches at the sides and roof with 9 bays of segmental-headed iron trusses supporting wooden roof with central glazed lantern and wooden framed end clad in vertical planks and supported on a square wooden pier and pilaster on each side with moulded pendants. Angled roof appears to have been a prototype for the 1870s Earl's Court and Ealing Broadway stations. Twin cast iron footbridges for departing and arriving passengers both survive, although the exit footbridge is no longer linked with the street These have decorative balustrading, square newel posts and mahogany handrails and are supported on decorated cast iron columns. Cast iron bridges between with criss-cross design balustrading. Some late C20 brick infill below staircases.
One of a small number of 1860s underground stations which are the first in the world, West Brompton being unusual in retaining its original Booking Hall , although with some alterations. It is the best preserved example of a station on the District Line.

Laurence Menear "London's Underground Stations" p14.
David lawrence "Underground Architecture" p15

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