Kenley Station House (Original 1856 Building)

This is an early railway station house, built in 1856 for the Caterham Railway and enlarged around 1873. It was designed by Richard Whittall. The building is constructed of squared stone with ashlar dressings, with rendered sections and tiled roofs. It is in a Gothic style, with a T-shaped plan and a projecting porch.

The front elevation features a large porch with a very steeply pitched roof supported by shaped wooden posts and a collar beam with curved struts. The doorway has a plank door within a two-centred arch. The porch is flanked by a single brick stack to the left and a double stack to the right, which project through the steeply pitched roof with two diminishing stages and weathered caps. To the left of the porch, a blocked window is visible, above which a four-light window sits within an acutely angled gable featuring projecting timber bargeboards and mock timber framing with rendered infill. A two-storey wing extends to the left, with a ridge stack. The platform elevation mirrors the gable, but is a single-storey wing with a blocked four-light window and a steeply pitched roof. A circa 1873 single-storey rendered extension is attached to the right, featuring a blocked double sash window and a flat roof. The chimney to this section has been removed.

The interior has not been inspected.

The Caterham Railway line opened in 1856 as a single line between Purley and Caterham, and this building served as the original Kenley station. The line was doubled in 1899 by the South Eastern Railway, which had acquired the line in 1859. The subsequent station building and footbridge were constructed during this enlargement. The original station house subsequently became the station master's residence but is now disused.