Chiswick Railway Station

Chiswick Railway Station is a railway station built in 1849, designed by William Tite for the Windsor, Staines and South Western Railway. The building is constructed of London stock brick, featuring rendered quoins and dressings, and has a Welsh slate roof. It consists of a two-storey main block on the upside with small single-storey wings. The façade includes three windows and a central two-leaf door with an overlight, all set within a Roman Doric entablature. The ground floor windows are arranged as 4 over 4 panes with stepped voussoir heads, while a plat band runs at first floor level where the windows are 3 over 6 pane sashes. The roof is low pitched and hipped, with brick end chimney stacks.

The platform elevation mirrors the main façade but features a flat canopy on the ground floor, supported by seven timber posts that extend beyond the building at both ends. These posts hold cast-iron brackets and a fretted valance.

Historically, the station was opened as part of an extension of the Richmond Railway and was taken over by the London and South Western Railway in 1850, having been leased since 1848. It likely began as a single track line but was soon doubled. This station exemplifies Tite's classical villa design, first seen at Micheldever and Winchester on the London and Southampton Railway in 1838, and later at Whitchurch and Andover on the Basingstoke and Salisbury Railway in 1854.