London Bridge Station, Platforms 9-16 (Brighton Side) is a Grade II listed building in the Southwark local planning authority area, England. First listed on 19 December 1988. Train station. 5 related planning applications.

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

WRENN ID
proud-ember-laurel
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Southwark
Country
England
Date first listed
19 December 1988
Type
Train station
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

London Bridge Station, Platforms 9-16 (Brighton Side) is a trainshed built between 1864 and 1867, designed by architect CH Driver and engineer FD Banister for the London Brighton and South Coast Railway. The structure is made of yellow brick in English bond with stone and polychromatic brick dressings, featuring hipped flanking taller semicircular corrugated iron roofs.

The exterior includes a two-storey wall on the south side facing St Thomas's Street, characterized by bays framed by Tuscan pilasters that rise to a modillioned classical cornice. The ground floor features mostly blind semicircular arches arranged in triplets, along with a skewed entrance arch adorned with polychromatic brick voussoirs. The first floor displays triplets of graduated semicircular blind arches, also with polychromatic brick voussoirs, set on pilasters with bold stone plinths and Romanesque-style capitals.

Inside, the walls are divided into twelve bays by pilasters that extend to a classical stone cornice. Most bays contain four semicircular blind arches with polychromatic brick voussoirs, complemented by red-brick bands and friezes. The twelve-bay roof is supported by wrought-iron trusses, featuring a central semicircular roof of crescent-truss design with vertical struts, flanked by two side roofs of triangular trusses carried on lattice girders. There are late 20th-century trusses in three bays to the southwest. The principal ribs and lattice girders are supported by two parallel lines of reeded cast-iron columns with bulbous palm-leaf bases, and decorative wrought-iron foliate spandrels at the joints. The structure is open to the east, facing the country side.

The crescent-truss roof is notable as the only surviving design of its type among the London termini.

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