Newbury Park Station Bus Shelter

Bus shelter, 1947-1949, built to the designs of Oliver Hill for London Transport.

MATERIALS AND STRUCTURE: reinforced concrete vaulted structure (using Chesil Beach pebble aggregate) with copper panel roof cladding.

PLAN: rectangular plan, with the shelter set perpendicular to Eastern Avenue to the south. The forecourt is arranged with the shelter positioned to the west of the plot, parallel to the railway line, allowing space for a turning circle for buses to the north and entrance and exit points to the south.

EXTERIOR: broad hangar-type shelter, with the sides left open to reveal a series of seven semi-circular vaults sheathed in copper cladding. The vaulting has a broad span (approximately 60m wide) with strip light fittings and copper shields mounted to the soffit of the roof on both sides. An ‘Award of Merit’ plaque bearing the 1951 Festival of Britain Abram Grahams motif is mounted on the southern face of the vault to Eastern Avenue.

Under the powers of exclusion in s1 (5A) (b) of the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990), the walls and portals with Bostwick gates leading into the attached underground station ticket hall and its ancillary offices on the west side of the shelter (which fall within the mapped area) are specifically excluded from this List entry.