Denmark Hill Station, Cutting Walls And Platforms, With Phoenix And Firkin Public House

Denmark Hill Station, consisting of platforms, retaining walls, and associated structures incorporating the Phoenix and Firkin public house, was built between 1864 and 1866. The station suffered a fire in 1980, after which the central section was converted into a public house. The building uses brick in Flemish bond, stone, and terracotta, with hipped slate roofs and curved metal mansard roofs. Cast iron is used for columns, porch elements, and brackets. The architectural style is high Victorian Gothic.

The station is arranged in three parts. The central section is two storeys high with a hipped roof and a nine-window range. Flanking this are single-storey pavilions with mansard roofs, each featuring three windows. These pavilions project to create a porch area covered by a metal canopy. Two-storey extensions, each with two windows, are recessed at the ends of the station.

The ground-floor windows are round-arched, except for those at the extreme ends, which are segmental-arched to the left and camber-arched to the right. A continuous springing band with stylized terracotta foliage runs along the facade. Lower spandrels of the windows are recessed and some feature different coloured brickwork. The building has an entablature with bracketed cornices to all pavilions apart from the end wings, which have a plain entablature. All ground-floor windows have hood mouldings and keystones featuring incised ornament. The parapet to the mansarded bays includes a balustrade cast in a floral pattern. The first-floor windows of the central block are round-arched with springing bands and hood mouldings grouped in threes. Deep cast-iron brackets support the porch. Decorative stacks mark the join between the central and end wings, ornamented with attached colonnettes and cornices. The return to Champion Park features camber-arched windows and matches the materials of the main elevation. A return to the left side also features round-arched windows. Ridge stacks are present on the end units. The east-facing elevation, over the cutting, incorporates a glazed passage to stairs of 19th-century design, mirroring motifs from the main elevation. The platform fixtures, walls supporting the station, and retaining walls to the cutting feature segmental and banded brick arches and brick polychrome decoration.

The waiting room in the right-hand pavilion showcases an ornamented coved cornice. All platforms retain cast-iron columns supporting cast-iron and wood canopies, representing a rare and largely complete example of a Victorian suburban station.