Loughton London Regional Transport Underground Station With Associated Shops and Platforms

Loughton London Regional Transport Underground Station with associated shops and platforms, Station Approach

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This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 13 April 2026 to correct a typo in the description and reformat the text to current standards

TQ 49 NW
176- /1/10003

EPPING FOREST
Loughton
STATION APPROACH (south side),
Loughton London Regional Transport Underground Station with associated shops and platforms

II
Station building, platforms and integral shops. Built for the London and North Eastern Railway in 1939-40 in anticipation of the line's transfer to London Underground. Architect John Murray Easton of Stanley Hall, Easton and Robertson. Steel frame with infill of narrow bond bricks, concrete platform canopies. Flat roofs.

The station is reached at the end of an approach road, with projecting cafe on one side. Angled entrance under canopies flanked by shops leads to double-height ticket hall whence passage descends under tracks to platforms. Original tiled entrance and floor, the rest rendered. Platforms have kidney-shaped flat-slab canopies on piers arranged in alternating broad and narrow bays. The narrow bays infilled by cast poster boards. Similar free-standing information stands are between them, also fixed seating set with Underground roundels (shown in photographs of 1942, so original) in black outline. Pairs of freestanding lamp standards cast with roundel signs at platform ends.

Listing NGR: TQ4231595632
Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1141221
Date first listed:
17-May-1994
List Entry Name:
Loughton London Regional Transport Underground Station With Associated Shops and Platforms
Statutory Address:
Loughton London Regional Transport Underground Station with associated shops and platforms, Station Approach
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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1141221
Date first listed:
17-May-1994
List Entry Name:
Loughton London Regional Transport Underground Station With Associated Shops and Platforms
Statutory Address 1:
Loughton London Regional Transport Underground Station with associated shops and platforms, Station Approach

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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.

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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.

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Location

Statutory Address:
Loughton London Regional Transport Underground Station with associated shops and platforms, Station Approach

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

County:
Essex
District:
Epping Forest (District Authority)
Parish:
Loughton
National Grid Reference:
TQ 42315 95632

Summary

This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 13 April 2026 to correct a typo in the description and reformat the text to current standards

TQ 49 NW
176- /1/10003

EPPING FOREST
Loughton
STATION APPROACH (south side),
Loughton London Regional Transport Underground Station with associated shops and platforms

II
Station building, platforms and integral shops. Built for the London and North Eastern Railway in 1939-40 in anticipation of the line's transfer to London Underground. Architect John Murray Easton of Stanley Hall, Easton and Robertson. Steel frame with infill of narrow bond bricks, concrete platform canopies. Flat roofs.

The station is reached at the end of an approach road, with projecting cafe on one side. Angled entrance under canopies flanked by shops leads to double-height ticket hall whence passage descends under tracks to platforms. Original tiled entrance and floor, the rest rendered. Platforms have kidney-shaped flat-slab canopies on piers arranged in alternating broad and narrow bays. The narrow bays infilled by cast poster boards. Similar free-standing information stands are between them, also fixed seating set with Underground roundels (shown in photographs of 1942, so original) in black outline. Pairs of freestanding lamp standards cast with roundel signs at platform ends.

Listing NGR: TQ4231595632

Details

This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 13 April 2026 to correct a typo in the description and reformat the text to current standards

TQ 49 NW
176- /1/10003

EPPING FOREST
Loughton
STATION APPROACH (south side),
Loughton London Regional Transport Underground Station with associated shops and platforms

II
Station building, platforms and integral shops. Built for the London and North Eastern Railway in 1939-40 in anticipation of the line's transfer to London Underground. Architect John Murray Easton of Stanley Hall, Easton and Robertson. Steel frame with infill of narrow bond bricks, concrete platform canopies. Flat roofs.

The station is reached at the end of an approach road, with projecting cafe on one side. Angled entrance under canopies flanked by shops leads to double-height ticket hall whence passage descends under tracks to platforms. Original tiled entrance and floor, the rest rendered. Platforms have kidney-shaped flat-slab canopies on piers arranged in alternating broad and narrow bays. The narrow bays infilled by cast poster boards. Similar free-standing information stands are between them, also fixed seating set with Underground roundels (shown in photographs of 1942, so original) in black outline. Pairs of freestanding lamp standards cast with roundel signs at platform ends.

Listing NGR: TQ4231595632

Legacy

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Legacy System number:
352187
Legacy System:
LBS

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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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