Kilburn Park Underground Station

Kilburn Park Underground Station is a London Underground station dating from 1914-15, likely designed by Stanley Heaps, but maintaining the characteristic house style established by his predecessor, Leslie Green, for the London Electric Railway. The station is constructed primarily of red glazed faience.

The surface building is a single-storey structure with a flat roof. It has a six-bay frontage on Cambridge Avenue, with a two-bay return to Alpha Place. Each bay contains a round-arched opening; the openings at either end of the Cambridge Avenue facade serve as entrances to the station, the one on the right featuring a blue canopy. Two bays immediately to the right of the other entrance retain original tripartite fenestration in the top lights, with small-paned glazing creating a lattice pattern that is repeated under the windows. Pilasters clad in faience, replicating the round-arched motif, are placed between each window. A tiled frieze is set into the faience above, incorporating the words "EXIT”, "UndergrounD”, "KILBURN”, "PARK", "UndergrounD" and "ENTRANCE". A dentiled cornice is present, and this “KILBURN” and “PARK” pattern is repeated on the Alpha Place elevation.

The interior features a tiled entrance hall with a dentiled band below a plain plaster frieze. Original ticket windows are housed within pedimented, timber surrounds. A substantial original timber kiosk, featuring a moulded cornice band, sash windows, dado panelling, and a panelled door, is located opposite the ticket windows. Octagonal light fittings illuminate the space. Areas of chequerboard tiling create a framework for posters near the renewed escalators. The plain escalator well is topped by an oval glazed dome with a higher central light. The lower escalator hall contains moulded arches with keystones leading to the platforms on either side, with tiling extending up to the springing level of the round-arched space. At the far end is a veneered timber observation kiosk surmounted by a clock. The platforms are tiled to the height of the continuous frieze bearing the station name; voussoirs are present on all tunnel entrances.

The station is notable as a remarkably complete late example of the corporate style established in the early 1900s by Leslie Green for the London Electric Railway and is considered a particularly sophisticated and lavish example.