Bishopstone Railway Station

Bishopstone Railway Station, built in 1936, was commissioned by the Guildhall Development Company to serve a nearby housing estate. It now operates as a British Rail station. The station is constructed primarily of brick and reinforced concrete, featuring Portland stone detailing, metal frame windows, and flat roofs.

The design follows a symmetrical plan centered on the station forecourt. A tall, octagonal booking hall dominates the centre, with lower rooms flanking a recessed entrance from the forecourt. These rooms have quadrant ends that return to recessed side wings. A reinforced concrete cantilevered canopy extends across the full width of the front, mirroring the plan's profile. The building has a two-course stone plinth, with the upper course set back. The canted sides of the entrance are flanked by pilaster strips, with fixed metal frame windows set within recessed brick panels. The recessed entrance features a heavily moulded doorframe and a pair of glazed panel doors. A three-light metal frame casement window sits above the doors, and a shop entrance is on the right-hand wing. Walls above the canopy are topped with a stone course at the centre and stone coping on the wings.

The octagonal drum above the parapet level and two pillboxes added around 1940, on the upper splay of the octagon, are banded with a projecting brick course. A concrete band with projecting strings sits above the octagon, located below a concrete roof slab with projecting eaves. The pillboxes have stepped outer splays to the jambs and heads of gun ports, formed in the ends and rear side walls. A heightened parapet lies between the pillboxes. A flagpole projecting through the eaves of the roof slab is mounted against the front of the octagon. A doorway on the railway side of the booking hall leads to a steel-framed and plated canopied bridge with canopied steel stairs to both platforms.

The hall's interior features white glazed ceramic tiles and a terrazzo floor laid in a tile pattern. Deep concrete cross beams support a roof grid inset with reinforced glass bricks, providing top lighting. The booking office and other rooms on the sides of the hall are not accessible. The station's design is strongly influenced by stations designed by Charles Holden for London Transport, such as Arnos Grove and Bounds Green around 1932. The pillboxes, deliberately integrated into the station's design, are a notable feature.