Harlow Town Station Including Platform Structures
HARLOW TOWN STATION INCLUDING PLATFORM STRUCTURES, STATION APPROACH
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1117351
- Date first listed:
- 25-Nov-1995
- List Entry Name:
- Harlow Town Station Including Platform Structures
- Statutory Address:
- HARLOW TOWN STATION INCLUDING PLATFORM STRUCTURES, STATION APPROACH
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1117351
- Date first listed:
- 25-Nov-1995
- List Entry Name:
- Harlow Town Station Including Platform Structures
- Statutory Address 1:
- HARLOW TOWN STATION INCLUDING PLATFORM STRUCTURES, STATION APPROACH
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:
- HARLOW TOWN STATION INCLUDING PLATFORM STRUCTURES, STATION APPROACH
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Essex
- District:
- Harlow (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- TL 44626 11232
Details
TL 41 SE HARLOW STATION APPROACH
973/2/10003 Harlow Town Station incl.
Platform structures
II
Station Building. 1959-60. Regional Architect Eastern Region, H H Powell; Project Architect Paul Hamilton, with John Bicknell and Ian Fraser. Composite steel and timber frame with pre-stressed , concrete cantilevers supporting the concourse roof. Cladding of light grey brick on blue engineering brick plinth; fascias of plywood; much plate glass. The central double-height station concourse projects above single-storey facilities ranged on either side. The concourse is linked to the two island platforms by an overbridge containing toilets, waiting room and staff facilities. Towering above the bridge are three tall lift rooms constructed in vertical board-marked fair faced concrete. Emphasised horizontal planes a telling counterpoise in the composition. Flat roofs with prominent projections oversail the concourse and secondary entrances. Fascias of various depths, the concourse roof provided with the deepest. Continuous clerestory glazing of several heights. The undersides of all canopies including those to platforms of V-jointed varnished softwood boarding. Below continuous clerestory glazing the interior walls of the concourse and booking hall are finished in pale blue glass mosaic, with the concourse columns in black mosaic. Under H H Powell, with his principal assistant Roger Walters, the Eastern Region Architect's Department was the most creative branch of British Railways, designing a number of powerful modern stations in conjunction with the Region's electrification. The new station for Harlow New Town was the flagship of this achievement. It is a building with powerful spatial qualities, of especial interest particularly for its architectural design. "The railway station is as a punctuation mark in a linear system at the point at which it meets the outside world. Few if any modern stations convey this idea so well as Harlow Town" (Architects' Journal, 15 December 1960, p.869).
Sources: The Architects' Journal, 15 December 1960,869-78; The Builder, 7 October 1960,644-8; The Architect and Building News, 18 January 1961, 83-8; Architectural Review, May 1961, p.31
Listing NGR: TL4724112396
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 442188
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Architects Journal in 15 December, (1960), 869-878
Architect and Building News in 18 January, (1961), 83-88
The Builder in 7 October, (1960), 644-648
Architectural Review in May, (1961), 31
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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