London Bridge Station, Platforms 9-16 (Brighton Side)

TQ3280 636-1/2/627 19/12/88

SOUTHWARK RAILWAY APPROACH (East side) London Bridge Station, Platforms 9-16 (Brighton Side)

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Trainshed. 1864-7. By CH Driver (architect) and FD Banister (engineer). For London Brighton and South Coast Railway. MATERIALS: English bond yellow brick with stone and polychromatic brick dressings; hipped flanking taller semicircular corrugated iron roofs. PLAN: open plan with wide central 'nave' and narrower aisles. EXTERIOR: 2-storey wall to south (facing St Thomas's Street) with bays framed by Tuscan pilasters rising to modillioned classical cornice. Ground floor has semicircular arches, mostly blind and in triplets; a skewed entrance arch with polychromatic brick voussoirs. First floor has triplets of graduated semicircular blind arches with polychromatic brick voussoirs, set on pilasters with bold stone plinths and Romanesque-style capitals. INTERIOR: inner walls divided into 12 bays by pilasters rising to classical stone cornice, most bays having 4 semicircular blind arches with polychromatic brick voussoirs and red-brick bands and friezes. 12-bay roof with wrought-iron trusses: central semicircular roof of crescent-truss design with vertical struts, flanked by 2 side roofs of triangular trusses carried on lattice girders; late C20 trusses to 3 bays to south west. Principal ribs and lattice girders carried by 2 parallel lines of reeded cast-iron columns with bulbous palm-leaf bases and decorative wrought-iron foliate spandrels to joints. Open to east (country) side. The crescent-truss roof is the only surviving design of its type among the London termini.

Listing NGR: TQ3295580101