West Acton Underground Station is a Grade II listed building in the Ealing local planning authority area, England. First listed on 20 July 2011. Transportation. 8 related planning applications.
West Acton Underground Station
- WRENN ID
- nether-cobble-swallow
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Ealing
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 20 July 2011
- Type
- Transportation
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
West Acton Underground Station is a Grade II listed building featuring a ticket hall situated on a concrete bridge above two central tracks, with open-sided staircases leading down to two platforms. The ticket hall is designed as a reinforced concrete frame 'box' clad in brick, featuring full-height windows with concrete mullions on both the front and rear. The brick side walls extend above the roofline to create two slender pylons. The main entrance is sheltered by a flat canopy made of glass blocks, which has a metal fascia displaying the station's name on a combination of the original frame and new panels. A modern replica of the Underground roundel is mounted on the canopy. The entrance is flanked by two retail kiosks with timber shop fronts.
Inside, the ticket hall boasts an ochre-coloured tiled floor, tiled lower walls, and a painted concrete ceiling illuminated by wall-mounted uplighters. The upper walls, originally fair-faced brick, are now painted. A curved varnished timber bench and two vitreous enamel destination boards from 1962 are notable features. The tiles throughout the station are pale cream with red and black edging, with recent replacements made to match the original colour scheme (excluding the red edging). The floor tiles in the ticket hall are likely mostly original, with some later replacements, while the small lower windows on the rear elevation have been replaced with uPVC.
The platforms are accessed via covered, tile-lined concrete staircases featuring original bronze handrails. Each platform has a flat-roofed, open-sided concrete shelter with a distinctive bull-nosed glazed end. Inside the shelters, polished hardwood benches are crook-shaped to match the curve of the shelter. Original vitreous enamel platform signs indicating the platform numbers remain, while two wall-mounted roundels are modern replicas of the originals, and all other signage is made from contemporary materials.
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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2020
- Related listed building consents — 8 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
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