Slough Station booking hall, booking office and travel centre

The Slough Station booking hall, booking office, and travel centre was built in 1882 by J.E. Danks in a Second Empire style. The building is constructed of red brick with grey brick dressings and lacing courses, and Bath stone dressings. It comprises a central block and two outer blocks with linking blocks in between. The roofs of the pavilion sections are laminated timber, clad in glass-reinforced plastic facsimiles of zinc fish-scale tiles, while the linking blocks have corrugated iron roofs.

The central block is single-story and features unfluted pilaster strips rising to a dentil cornice and moulded gutter, with trefoiled acroteria above. A raised open segmental pediment sits over the central bay, containing a keyed clock in the tympanum and an orb finial above. There are four oeil de boeuf attic windows with shells above, and a wrought iron balustrade surrounds the flat part of the roof. The block has five bays, with paired clerestory casements, segmental headed lower windows with 20th-century glazing bars in the second bay from the left, and 20th-century glazed double doors in the left-hand and central bays. The linking blocks are also single-story, each featuring two ridge stacks off-centre to the left and right, with overhanging tops. They have six bays with paired and tripartite segmental headed windows and 20th-century glazing bars, and 20th-century glazed double doors in the right-hand block’s second bay from the right. A continuous canopy extends in front of the central and linking blocks, supported by open cast iron brackets; it was formerly ornamented with a toothed valence and decorative cast-iron cresting. The outer blocks are single-story, mirroring the central block’s pilaster strips, dentil cornice, moulded gutter and trefoiled acroteria, with a wrought iron balustraded surround to the flat central roof section. The right-hand block has two end stacks, while the left-hand block has three end stacks, all with overhanging tops. Formerly, each outer pavilion contained three oeil de boeuf windows. The left-hand pavilion has tall paired centre-hung casements, and the right-hand pavilion has large segmental headed casements in the two right-hand bays and paired segmental headed casements in the left-hand bay. A platform canopy of eleven bays extends north, supported by fluted cast iron columns, a timber roof, and a toothed valence.

The interior features a tall central booking hall open to the roof.