RAILWAY ELECTRICAL CONTROL ROOM

RAILWAY ELECTRICAL CONTROL ROOM, YORK ROAD

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1245335
Date first listed:: 16-Jun-1997
List Entry Name:: RAILWAY ELECTRICAL CONTROL ROOM
Statutory Address:: RAILWAY ELECTRICAL CONTROL ROOM, YORK ROAD

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1245335
Date first listed:: 16-Jun-1997
List Entry Name:: RAILWAY ELECTRICAL CONTROL ROOM
Statutory Address 1:: RAILWAY ELECTRICAL CONTROL ROOM, YORK ROAD

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:: RAILWAY ELECTRICAL CONTROL ROOM, YORK ROAD

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

County:: Surrey
District:: Woking (District Authority)
Parish:: Non Civil Parish
National Grid Reference:: SU9996158116

Details

SU 95 NE YORK ROAD (Off)

71/5/10010 Railway Electrical Control Room

II

Railway electrical control room. Built in 1936 by the Swedish firm of Asean for Southern Railways. Built of concrete with flat roof and metal-framed casement windows. STYLE: International Modern. PLAN AND EXTERIOR: comprises entrance block of 4x2 bays of one storey with central entrance with architrave and rectangular fanlight. Taller one storey control room behind. Full-height pilasters and cornice articulate the bays. INTERIOR: offices to entrance block but Control Room is oval with domed ceiling and has four ornate 1930's lamps on cast-iron columnar bases with copper dishes which illuminate the dome as uplighters. Around the outside of the room are the track diagrams arranged in a striking design of silver against black background with coloured lights to represent all the switches. Outside the room is all the original electro-mechanical switch gear. HISTORICAL NOTE: this was one of five original control rooms built by this firm for Southern Railways of which only three survive - Woking being the last to remain operational. Southern Railways was in the forefront of electrification.

Listing NGR: SU9996158116

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Legacy System number:: 468730
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.