Aylesford Station

AYLESFORD CP

TQ 75 NW & TQ 7258 8/92 and 12/92

STATION ROAD (north side) Aylesford Station

GV II

Railway station. 1856. For South-Eastern Railway. Random dressed stone with ashlar quoins and dressings. Plain and fish scale tiled roof with left end stack to left wing and right end stack to taller central block, both corbelled out from the gable. The upper parts of the stacks have been taken down leaving tall square plinths. Projecting stack on front of outer right-hand wing. Gable parapets with kneelers and ridge crestings. 1½ storeys, except 2 storeys in inner right-hand wing and 1 storey in outer right-hand wing. Central block: Central gabled semi-dormer with gable parapets and kneelers. 1-bay first floor, 2-bay ground floor, all 2-light mullioned windows with hexagonal lozenge lattice iron casements. Central entrance with depressed pointed arch and later C20 glazed doors and over-light. Left wing: 1 bay with gabled semi-dormer with parapet and kneelers containing sash window over 2-light mullion window below with hexagonal lozenge lattice iron casements. Extension to left 1 storey with single lattice casement to right and coped parapet. Inner right wing: 1 bay with lattice casements. Outer right wing: Lower blank coped gable end abutted by 1 storey gabled block to the front and right. Stack, already mentioned above, on front face, with arched doorway and single lattice casement in left-hand re-entrant angle. Designed to match in style and materials the needy school (qv).

Listing NGR: TQ7201158690