Penge East Railway Station

Penge East Railway Station is a railway station built between 1861 and 1863 by the London Chatham and Dover Railway Company as part of its extension of the Kent Line from Beckenham to Herne Hill. The station is constructed from yellow stock brick, with engineering brick, limestone, and glazed tile dressings, topped with slate roofs. It has an asymmetrical plan featuring a six-bay range on the platform, flanked by two-bay gabled wings, with the left wing rising to two storeys and the right wing to one storey.

The windows and doorways are adorned with limestone imposts and keystones, featuring incised trefoils above red rubbed brick pointed arches, with an engineering brick band above the arch. Most of the sash windows have pointed heads on the upper lights. The south elevation shows the left-hand wing with single windows on both the ground and first floors, along with a narrow half-storey light to the right. The right-hand return features a single part-glazed door with original patterned glass, sheltered by a slated timber canopy.

In the right-hand wing, there are two ground floor windows and an oeil de boeuf in the gable, surrounded by rings of red brick, yellow brick, and engineering brick. An attached lean-to on the right has a pair of single sashes. The main range includes four similar sash windows and two pairs of part-glazed doors in the fourth and fifth bays. A moulded glazed band runs beneath the cill level and at the impost level on both storeys, except at the lowest level where it is combined with a flush limestone band. Additional limestone bands are present at mid-storey levels and across the left-hand gable.

Red brick cornices are dentilled at the gables and across the right-hand gable at eaves height. Stacks are positioned at each end of the main range, on the left-hand wing, and on the ridge of the right-hand wing, all featuring oversailing caps, moulded bands, and red brick decoration on the shoulders. Iron brackets are located at the angles of the gables, and there is an oeil de boeuf on each platform gable. The station is part of a scheme that includes the Penge Tunnel, for which Joseph Cubitt served as Chief Engineer.