Paddington British Rail Maintenance Depot, West Block
PADDINGTON BRITISH RAIL MAINTENANCE DEPOT, WEST BLOCK, 179, HARROW ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1263004
- Date first listed:
- 14-Apr-1994
- List Entry Name:
- Paddington British Rail Maintenance Depot, West Block
- Statutory Address:
- PADDINGTON BRITISH RAIL MAINTENANCE DEPOT, WEST BLOCK, 179, HARROW ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1263004
- Date first listed:
- 14-Apr-1994
- List Entry Name:
- Paddington British Rail Maintenance Depot, West Block
- Statutory Address 1:
- PADDINGTON BRITISH RAIL MAINTENANCE DEPOT, WEST BLOCK, 179, HARROW ROAD
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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:
- PADDINGTON BRITISH RAIL MAINTENANCE DEPOT, WEST BLOCK, 179, HARROW ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Greater London Authority
- District:
- City of Westminster (London Borough)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- TQ 26250 81703
Details
TQ 2681 NW HARROW ROAD
1900-/40/10036 No.179 - Paddington British Rail Maintenance Depot, West Block
GV II*
Workshops, offices and boiler house of the maintenance depot for road vehicles built for British Rail's Paddington Goods Yard in 1966-8 by Paul Hamilton of Bicknell and Hamilton. Designed in 1964. Reinforced concrete frame clad on the upper floors with glazed ceramic mosaic. Flat roof. Irregular, expressionist triangular plan on four main storeys on land scooped out for the making of the elevated Harrow Road and M40 Westway. Ground-floor boiler house under projecting first floor workshops, with funnel-like chimneys. Workshops and offices above, rest rooms in tall staircase and lift block rising from broader entrance or 'stern' end. The building can be entered from the first floor roadway or exposed semi-basement. Bands of continuous metal mullion-light glazing on first and upper floors.
The interior is little altered, and has been praised for its well-detailed finishes. The main floors are open plan. Of special interest is its staircase, with continuous and sinuous ceramic-clad balustrade.
The Paddington Maintenance Depot marks the culmination of British Railways' post-war building programme, which can be appreciated as a continuous development from lightweight prefabrication to the heavy, romantic and sculptural forms seen here.
Sources Architectural Review, January 1965, p.90 Architects' Journal, 18/25 December 1968, pp.1465-75 Official Architecture and Planning, February 1969, p.151-7 Concrete, June 1974, p.35
Listing NGR: TQ2625081703
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 433539
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Architects Journal in 18 December, (1968), 1465-75
Official Architecture and Planning in February, (1969), 151-7
Architectural Review in January, (1965), 90
Concrete in June, (1974), 35
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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