Entrance Building to Clapham Common Tube Station
ENTRANCE BUILDING TO CLAPHAM COMMON TUBE STATION, THE PAVEMENT
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1065005
- Date first listed:
- 27-Mar-1981
- List Entry Name:
- Entrance Building to Clapham Common Tube Station
- Statutory Address:
- ENTRANCE BUILDING TO CLAPHAM COMMON TUBE STATION, THE PAVEMENT
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1065005
- Date first listed:
- 27-Mar-1981
- List Entry Name:
- Entrance Building to Clapham Common Tube Station
- Statutory Address 1:
- ENTRANCE BUILDING TO CLAPHAM COMMON TUBE STATION, THE PAVEMENT
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- ENTRANCE BUILDING TO CLAPHAM COMMON TUBE STATION, THE PAVEMENT
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Greater London Authority
- District:
- Lambeth (London Borough)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- TQ 29427 75291
Details
TQ 2975 THE PAVEMENT
(South side), (Clapham Common), SW4
963/16/770
Entrance to Clapham Common
27.03.81 Tube Station
GV II
Underground Station. 1900, remodelled with new entrance in 1923-4 to the designs of Charles Holden. Small circular domed building with wings to north and south. Structural faience blocks with plinth and top moulding. Glazed dome with ball finial, with UndergrounD motif on frieze renewed in 1997. Circular UndergrounD signs on finials also restored in 1997. Interior is tiled in white with green panel borders. The ticket hall reached via stairs with central cast-iron balustrade; the foyers and access corridors also have white tiles with green panel borders renewed in the pattern of the original in 1997. It is one of only two surviving underground stations with a central island platform, the lines set in a single large hall.
Sources
Laurence Menear, London's Underground Stations, 1985
David Lawrence, Underground Architecture, 1994
Listing NGR: TQ2942775291
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 204563
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Lawrence, D, Underground London, (1994)
Menear, L, Londons Underground Stations, (1985)
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
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