Hendon Central Underground Station

Hendon Central Underground Station is a substantial surface-level station comprising an arcade and ticket hall, a footbridge over the tracks, platform staircases and a lift serving a single island platform running south-east to north-west.

The Portland stone-faced frontage is embedded within the larger Central Circus building and features a projecting full-storey-height portico. This portico has eight paired Doric columns supporting an entablature with cornice, topped by iron railings in neo-classical design. Original bronze lettering reading 'HENDON CENTRAL STATION' is affixed to the entablature. The entrance comprises three central bays beyond the colonnade, flanked by single-bay shop fronts. Stone piers between the entrance bays retain original black ceramic surrounds for former map or poster displays. The shop to the right of the entrance doors retains old signage in the transom, including the words 'ESTATE AGENTS'. The rear elevations are utilitarian except for brick arches and stone keystones to timber sash windows arranged in threes.

Within the entrance arcade, the shop return walls have polished timber display window surrounds and transom lights divided by classical stone piers. The floor is black-and-white chequerboard quarry tiles with a coved cornice ceiling; lighting is modern. Beyond the arcade, the ticket hall is separated by original timber and glass doors with shallow timber pediments, marginal lights, paterae and bronze fittings.

The ticket hall is a large cubic space lit by an attic clerestory with near-square timber sash windows. It has ceramic-faced black pilasters, a chunky dentil cornice below clerestory level and black-and-white chequerboard floor tiles with coved cornice ceiling. The wall tiles are white with green and black edging (the house style for this section of the Northern Line), with some modern replicas of originals. The ticket counter, machines, barriers and lighting are modern, but original timber surrounds remain where public telephone booths once stood. Doors between the ticket hall and footbridge match the ticket hall entrance design and are original.

The covered footbridge has part-glazed walls and arch-braced steel roof trusses bearing timber purlins and rafters, covered with tiles. Platform stairs are timber with metal stick balusters and timber handrails; one of the original two stairs has been replaced with a modern lift. The single island platform is covered by the original shallow-gabled lattice girder canopy with timber and glass covering and timber scalloped valances decorated with shallow discs. The platforms retain four benches set into the space under the platform stairs, two to each side. Between each pair of benches is a wall-mounted enamel and timber sign—a modern replica of the original—bearing the Underground roundel, the station name 'HENDON CENTRAL', a feathered directional arrow and the words 'WAY OUT'. The platform clock, manufactured by the Self-Winding Clock Company of New York, is original.