Slough Station Area Managers Office, Traffic Assistants Office, And Red Star Parcel Office

SU 98 SE SLOUGH RAILWAY TERRACE (south side)

2/20 Slough Station Area Manager's Office, Traffic Assistant's Office, And Red Star Parcels Office

G.V. II

Station building. 1882, by J.E. Danks in a Second Empire style. Red brick with grey brick and stone dressings and lacing courses. Central and outer blocks with laminated timber pavilion roofs clad in zinc fish-scale tiles with rope moulded ridge flashing, and linking blocks with corrugated iron roofs. Plan consists of central block and 2 smaller flanking pavilions with linking blocks. Central block: one storey. Unfluted pilaster strips rising to dentil cornice and moulded gutter with acroteria above; 3 oeil de boeuf attic windows with shells above, and wrought iron balustraded surround to central flat part of roof. 4 bays; centre-hung casements, paired in 2 central bays, and half glazed double doors in left-hand bay. Linking blocks: each has one ridge stack with oversailing top. 4 bays; centre-hung casements, either paired or singly; half glazed double doors in right-hand bay of left-hand block, and 2 wooden gates in right-band bay of right-hand block. Continuous canopy in front of central and lining blocks supported on open cast iron brackets. Outer blocks: one storey. Unfluted pilaster strips rising to dentil cornice and moulded gutter with trefoiled acroteria above; 3 oeil de boeuf attic windows with shells above; wrought iron balustraded surround to central flat part of roof; end stacks on inner faces with oversailing tops, 3 bays; tall paired centre-hung casements. B.O.E. (Bucks), p.238; The History of Slough Maxwell Fraser, Slough Corporation, 1973, p.52 and p.145.

Listing NGR: SU9784880201