Ealing Common London Regional Transport Underground Station, Including Vestibule Shops And Platforms

Ealing Common Underground Station is a London Underground station built in 1931 by Charles Holden, with on-site supervision by Stanley Heaps. The ticket hall is made of Portland stone and features a flat roof on a concrete bridge, with concrete stairs and cantilevered platforms that have brick infill. The single-storey entrance facade has a central opening beneath a projecting canopy. Behind this facade is the heptagonal drum of the ticket hall, which includes three kiosks in the side walls. At the rear, stairs lead to the platforms, which have semi-enclosed shelters with original fixed seating at their base. The canopies at the rear of the platform incorporate metal clerestory glazing. Original roundel signs on the flank walls are fully lined out in black. All windows are metal glazed, with some featuring casement openings. Inside, the ticket hall has floor tiling arranged in a heptagonal star pattern that mirrors the structure, and original bronze shop fronts for the kiosks, topped with decorative tiling in three shades of grey and white. Above the kiosks are metal windows with vertical glazing bars and narrow margins, all except the street-facing window, which has an Underground roundel outlined by glazing bars and plain glass. The ceiling is coffered, and the entrance canopy also features a coffered soffit, with a projecting solid roundel above it, which has been restored since 1987. This station is notable as one of only two examples of the Underground architectural style that bridges the classical style of the 1920s and the Scandinavian or Dutch-inspired designs that followed.