Kew Gardens Station

Kew Gardens Station is a railway station built between 1868 and 1869 for the London South-Western Railway. It features stock brick construction with brick and stone dressings, topped with slate roofs. The building is nearly symmetrical, standing two storeys high with five bays and single-storey half-hipped wings on either side.

The west elevation showcases a blind arcade of round-headed arches, supported by piers with moulded brick bases, caps, and bands. The finely jointed arches are made of stock brick. There are round-arched entrances on the left and right, with a pair of panelled doors on the left and a single panelled door on the right, both topped with glazed fanlights. The first floor has sashes beneath multiple moulded brick arches, and a moulded stone cill band runs along the left and right returns. Below and at the eaves, a moulded brick band also extends to the returns. The boxed eaves are supported by moulded brick brackets.

A four-bay flat-roofed canopy rests on cast iron brackets. Tall external stacks are located at the left and right returns. The left wing contains a pair of round-arched sashes and a smaller round-arched window, which was formerly a ticket booth, with a moulded eaves band above. The right wing mirrors this, featuring a pair of round-arched openings, one of which is now blocked, and an altered opening to the right.

The platform elevation mirrors the design of the west elevation, with raised and fielded panelled doors and an altered or inserted entrance to the right. The sashes include one with glazing bars. A deep canopy in three unequal bays is supported by cast iron shafts with foliate capitals and cast iron brackets.