London Transport Museum

The London Transport Museum, formerly known as The Flower Market, is a former market hall dating from 1871 to 1872, originally designed by William Rogers of Cubitts, with extensions built between 1884 and 1886 to Tavistock Street, and a new front added to Wellington Street. The building is constructed of red and white brick with stone and terracotta dressings and glass roofs, featuring Italianate detailing.

The Wellington Street frontage is a tall single storey, three bays wide. It has an arcade of three large arches framing double doors in the outer bays and a window in the centre. Each arch has a glazed radiating fanlight and a key block; the central window's key block features the letter "B" for Bedford beneath a coronet. A modillion cornice sits above the arches, topped by a balustraded parapet.

The interior layout features a cast iron structure with glazed clerestories supporting slated roofs and skylights, designed in the form of two lofty naves between three aisles. A short east nave returns to form a transept crossing the west nave.

The Tavistock Street front clearly displays the main structural elements, where nave and aisle divisions are concealed by pilasters between semicircular arched openings – a pair of windows to each nave, a single window to the west aisle, and double doors with fanlights to the middle and east aisles. Pedimented attics with large lunette windows are above each nave bay. A similar feature completes the west transept on the west front, which mirrors this design.

Five wall-mounted Windsor lanterns are positioned on the Tavistock Court elevation, with a gas lantern in the centre. The Tavistock Street elevation has five electric Rochester lanterns suspended from a canopy, along with a smaller, gas-powered Railway lantern at the east end, which is similar in design to the Rochester lanterns but of reduced diameter and a rare surviving example of its kind.