Kew Gardens Station

TQ1976 STATION PARADE 22/10/10140 Kew Gardens Station 26-SEP-02

GV II

Railway station. 1868-9 for the London South-Western Railway. Stock brick, brick and stone dressings, slate roofs. Near symmetrical, two storeys, five bays, with single storey half-hipped wing to each side. West elevation: blind arcade of round headed arches, the piers with moulded brick bases, caps and bands. Finely jointed arches in stock brick. Left and right round arched entrances, to left a pair of panelled doors, to right a single panelled door, each under glazed fanlight; sashes; all under similar round arches. First floor sashes under multiple moulded brick arches, moulded stone cill band continuing to left and right returns. Below, and at eaves, moulded brick band also continuing to returns. Boxed eaves with moulded brick brackets. Four bay flat-roofed canopy on cast iron brackets. Tall external stacks to left and right returns. Left hand wing, pair of round arched sashes and smaller round arched window, formerly ticket booth. Moulded eaves band. Similar right hand wing, formerly pair of round arched openings, one now blocked, altered opening to right. Platform elevation. Detailed as west elevation. Raised and fielded panelled doors; altered or inserted entrance to right. Sashes, one with glazing bars. Deep canopy in three unequal bays, on cast iron shafts with foliate capitals, cast iron brackets.

B.Cherry and N.Pevsner, London 2: South, 1983, p.465 & 505 D.Blomfield, Kew Past, 1994