CENTRAL STATION

CENTRAL STATION, HORTON LANE

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1232443
Date first listed:: 09-May-1988
List Entry Name:: CENTRAL STATION
Statutory Address:: CENTRAL STATION, HORTON LANE

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1232443
Date first listed:: 09-May-1988
List Entry Name:: CENTRAL STATION
Statutory Address 1:: CENTRAL STATION, HORTON LANE

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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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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:: CENTRAL STATION, HORTON LANE

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

County:: Surrey
District:: Epsom and Ewell (District Authority)
Parish:: Non Civil Parish
National Grid Reference:: TQ 19288 62047

Details

EPSOM HORTON LANE TQ 1862-1962 (West side, off) 19/2 Central Station II

Hospital water, gas and electricity station now disused. Designed 1899, opened 1901. By Clifford Smith for London County Council. Yellow brick with red brick dressings; Welsh slate roofs. 3-stage water tower enclosed by lower 2-storey and 1-storey ancillary buildings forming L-shaped plan. Tower: ashlar cornices between stages; red-brick quoins, keystoned archivolts and shaped panels below windows. On south side, 2 round-arched windows to lower stage, lunette above; similar lunette to north side, and on west side 3 lunettes, outer ones smaller. Tall, red-brick machicolations to upper stage below projecting cornice on top of which is a metal water tank, the tops of its north and south sides being inverted- triangle-shaped. Attached to south side, a low 3-bay single-storey building, with segmental brick-arched windows (that on left small); raised, corbelled verges; and central ridge stack. Against west side is a similar, larger, 2-storey building, the end gables with keyed oculi and raised gable band. Projecting on east side of tower is an added 2-storey gabled block, not of special interest; but to right of this are 2 paired original, gabled, single-storey ranges having: keyed, round-arched windows, left range with 2 windows flanking tall recess right range with 3 windows; gable bands; and the roof ridges louvred. Interior: tower reported to retain well- head surrounded by railings on ball-finialed fluted columns and the pumping machinery and engine. 'this building served all five of the nearby London County Council hospitals and its facilities included a 400 foot well-shaft, a gas works, an electricity switching station, a weigh-bridge, a boiler house, an engine house, a storage-battery room, a machine-tool shop, a rail terminal, a 40,000 gallon water storage tank, a cooling water reservoir, electric lighting plant and water softening plant.

Unused and in a state of disrepair at time of inspection.

Listing NGR: TQ1928862047

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Legacy System number:: 407828
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.