Stockwell Bus Garage

Stockwell Bus Garage is a bus garage, along with ancillary service buildings and offices, built between 1952 and 1953 by Adie, Button and Partners with Thomas Bilbow for the London Transport Executive. The engineer for the project was A E Beer. The structure is primarily made of reinforced concrete, featuring some brick cladding and brick offices.

The garage is a rectangular shed with ten arches connected by longitudinal H-beams that house the services. It has cantilevered barrel vaults between the arches, which are topped with large skylights and supported by smaller ribs to prevent torsion on the arches. The nine bays of the garage have main arches that are expressed externally as outward-leaning buttresses, creating a flowing roof line with a segmental curve to each bay.

The facade facing Lansdowne Way includes double folding doors in the central end bays, while the other bays feature glazing with twenty vertical lights. All bays have similarly-glazed segmental toplights with central louvres above. The end walls have fully-glazed segmental gables consisting of 84 vertical lights; the right gable has a double folding door below, and the left has fourteen five-light metal windows below. The facade on Binfield Road has six bays arranged in pairs with double folding doors. This facade is distinguished from the road by servicing and decking pits, with workshop and office accommodation angled on Binfield Road.

To the left, there are one-storey workshops with seven bays and four-light metal casements. To the right, there are two-storey offices and a canteen with eight bays, featuring a right return to the entrance driveway of seven bays that includes a central double door. Below, there are four-light casements, and above, tall two-light casements with eight square panes. The ribbed and vaulted construction is fully exposed and expressed in the garage's interior.