Ladywell Station

Ladywell Station is a railway station that features a main building, a subsidiary building, and a footbridge. It was built in 1857 and extended around 1880 for the South Eastern Railway. The station is constructed of yellow stock brick with rendered dressings and has a slate roof. The buildings are single storey and single depth, with platform canopies.

The street-facing side has six unequal bays, with the left two being part of the 1880 extension. The fourth bay from the left contains the entrance door, while the others have windows. The openings are adorned with moulded architraves; the windows have flat corniced heads, and the door has an arched head. The original building features moulded brick quoins. There is a parapet with a moulded brick string, a low-pitched hipped slate roof behind, and a chimney stack at the right end. Originally, there were three chimney stacks—one at each end of the ridge of the original building and one for the extension.

The platform side is similar in design but has a sequence of doors and windows: door, window, door, window, window, door, window. The arched doorway leads to the booking hall, while the others access waiting rooms. A timber canopy supported by square timber posts with a saw tooth valance is intact. There is also a covered wrought iron lattice girder footbridge. On the down platform, a shelter features plain brick walls for the waiting room and a hipped roof, along with a three-bay platform canopy similar to the one on the main building.

Historically, Ladywell Station opened in 1857 for the Mid Kent and North West Kent Railway and was taken over by the South Eastern Railway in 1864. The building was extended around 1880, and the canopies, footbridge, and down platform shelter likely date from that time. The station is a notable example of a South Eastern Railway station from the 1850s, which was sensitively extended in the 1880s and has seen little alteration since.