Northfields London Regional Transport Station Including Forecourt Walls and Platforms is a Grade II listed building in the Ealing local planning authority area, England. First listed on 17 May 1994. Transport station. 10 related planning applications.
Northfields London Regional Transport Station Including Forecourt Walls and Platforms
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- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Ealing
- Constituency
- Ealing Southall MP: Deirdre Costigan (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 17 May 1994
- Type
- Transport station
- Address
- Northfields London Regional Transport Station Including Forecourt Walls and Platforms, Northfields Avenue, W13 9QU
- OS grid reference
- TQ 171 791
- Coordinates
- 51.49938, -0.31423
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Northfields London Regional Transport Station, built in 1932 by Charles Holden with assistance from Stanley Heaps, is a Grade II listed underground station. It features a ticket office, forecourt walls, and island platforms. The station is constructed from reinforced concrete with red brick infill, and the platform level is exposed. A flat concrete roof creates a cornice band above the ticket office, which is set behind a forecourt flanked by brick walls topped with roundels.
The entrance is low and double, leading into a spacious double-height ticket hall with a five-bay aisle that connects to a lower passage. Stairs descend to the two platforms, which are integral to the station's design. The concrete canopies over the platforms are supported by piers arranged in alternating broad and narrow bays, with the narrow bays featuring original fixed seating and roundels outlined in black.
All windows are metal with horizontal glazing bars, and some have opening casements. Each side of the ticket hall has a full-height central window, with the front and back windows displaying the Underground roundel in colored glass. The ticket hall is finished with black tiles at ground level, while the upper sections reveal exposed brick and ceiling lintels. The rear bridge has four-light casements and clerestory lighting for the stair enclosures.
Beyond the platform canopy, four concrete slabs with stepped tops carry additional roundels and poster boards, maintaining the station's cohesive design. This station is noted as a complete and unaltered example of Charles Holden's work, showcasing the Sudbury Town design principles on a larger scale with its island platforms.
Local climate
Northfields London Regional Transport Station Including Forecourt Walls and Platforms sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 700 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 92% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 90% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 30 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 64% of listed buildings. Of these, 13 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.
Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.
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