Kings Cross Station

King's Cross Station is a railway terminus built between 1850 and 1852 by architect Lewis Cubitt and engineers Sir William and Joseph Cubitt. The station is constructed from yellow stock brick and originally featured two train sheds, one for arrivals and the other for departures. These are closed off by a monumental plain brick screen with two glazed semicircular openings, framed by recessed arches that echo the train sheds behind. The screen includes a central tower with a rectangular clock turret topped by a pyramidical roof, eaves cornice, and weather vane.

To the west of the station, there is a three-storey office block with three windows, which contains a booking hall and service rooms at the rear. The first floor features thin, debased Venetian windows, a cornice at the second floor level, and segmental-arched sashes on the second floor, with flanking bays that are tripartite. On the east side, an extension includes an archway to the cab drive, which is now bricked up, with a rusticated surround and quoins, topped by a cornice above which are three tripartite sashes and a parapet.

Inside, the train sheds are separated by a round-arched brick colonnade. The original roofs of the train sheds were made of laminated wood, inspired by the Crystal Palace, but these deteriorated quickly and were replaced by iron-ribbed roofs in the eastern shed between 1869 and 1870, and in the western shed between 1886 and 1887.

Historically, when it opened as the terminus of the Great Northern Railway, King's Cross Station was the largest station in England and remains the earliest great London terminus still intact. Its functional simplicity contrasts sharply with the nearby St Pancras Station.