Farringdon London Regional Transport Underground Station
36-38, COWCROSS STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1298047
- Date first listed:
- 17-May-1994
- List Entry Name:
- Farringdon London Regional Transport Underground Station
- Statutory Address:
- 36-38, COWCROSS STREET
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- Reference:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1298047
- Date first listed:
- 17-May-1994
- List Entry Name:
- Farringdon London Regional Transport Underground Station
- Statutory Address 1:
- 36-38, COWCROSS STREET
- Statutory Address 2:
- 40-42, COWCROSS STREET
- Statutory Address 3:
- FARRINGDON LONDON REGIONAL TRANSPORT UNDERGROUND STATION, COWCROSS STREET
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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.
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:
- 36-38, COWCROSS STREET
- Statutory Address:
- 40-42, COWCROSS STREET
- Statutory Address:
- FARRINGDON LONDON REGIONAL TRANSPORT UNDERGROUND STATION, COWCROSS STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Greater London Authority
- District:
- Islington (London Borough)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- TQ 31584 81844
Details
ISLINGTON
TQ3181NE COWCROSS STREET 635-1/77/349 (North side) 17/05/94 Farringdon LRT Underground Station
II
Includes: Nos.36-38 AND 40-42 COWCROSS STREET. The former Farringdon and High Holborn Station of the Metropolitan Railway, now a station shared by London Underground and British Rail under LRT management.The front building, to Cowcross Street, of 1922 by Charles Walter Clark; the train shed of 1865. Brick faced with white faience, some granite dressings and white and yellow exposed brick; glazed roof to front building so far as visible, the train shed is a glazed cast-iron construction supported on iron piers and with stock brick flank walls of the same date. The front building is all-but symmetrical to Cowcross Street with centrepiece of three bays containing the entrance; and three bays to either side with single-storey shop wings projecting forwards, each housing three shops and slightly overlapping the centrepiece. Central entrance with one broad flat-arched opening under a segmental moulding and two narrower segmental-arched openings to either side; London Transport metal and glazed awning now projecting from the fascia; shops have curved corners and are divided from each other by panelled pilasters supporting an entablature and blocking course. The shop fronts obscured by late C20 signage. Upper windows flat-arched with moulded architraves and panels between; quoins to centrepiece and outer corners; fascia with faience lettering; mutule cornice and stepped blocking course. In the return to Turnmill Street, flat-arched entrance with granite architrave including triple keystone; small flat-arched windows with keystones to ground floor, fascia panel for former Parcels Office, and six narrower flat-arched windows interspersed with panels to the first floor. Beyond that, three bays with round-arched windows under keystone remain from the 1865 station. Three platforms roofed by two shallow segmental-arched trussed and glazed roofs. Outer walls of yellow brick set in English bond and articulated by pilasters with two blank arches between: eleven such bays to the west side, ten to the east; various round-arched and segmental openings.The roofs are carried in the middle by paired metal columns with geometrical detailing at the capitals and decorative metal brackets. The front building is carried over the tracks by two segmental-arched bridges detailed in black brick. Farringdon Station was built as the terminus of the world's first underground railway, the Metropolitan Railway, which ran from here to Paddington. (Historians' file, English Heritage London Division).
Listing NGR: TQ3157581832
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 368844
- Legacy System:
- LBS
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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