BOW ROAD LONDON TRANSPORT UNDERGROUND STATION

BOW ROAD LONDON TRANSPORT UNDERGROUND STATION, BOW ROAD E3

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1357787
Date first listed:: 27-Sep-1973
List Entry Name:: BOW ROAD LONDON TRANSPORT UNDERGROUND STATION
Statutory Address:: BOW ROAD LONDON TRANSPORT UNDERGROUND STATION, BOW ROAD E3

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Date:: 2002-02-15
Reference:: IOE01/06216/03
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1357787
Date first listed:: 27-Sep-1973
List Entry Name:: BOW ROAD LONDON TRANSPORT UNDERGROUND STATION
Statutory Address 1:: BOW ROAD LONDON TRANSPORT UNDERGROUND STATION, BOW ROAD E3

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:: BOW ROAD LONDON TRANSPORT UNDERGROUND STATION, BOW ROAD E3

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

County:: Greater London Authority
District:: Tower Hamlets (London Borough)
Parish:: Non Civil Parish
National Grid Reference:: TQ 37114 82736

Details

BOW ROAD E3 1. 4431 (South Side) Bow Road London Transport Underground Station TQ 3782 12/291 II GV 2. Mid/later C19 station. Exterior facade to Bow Road of red brick, with stone eaves cornice and brick blocking course. Hipped slate roof. Alternate round arched doors, with terra cotta architraves and keystones. Band above. Panelled doors with fanlights, 4 light windows. Inside, wooden bridge (enclosed) across platforms and wooden platform canopy, supported by large, cast iron, wall brackets. Barrel vaulted brick roof extends under road, vaulting supported on cast iron beams and on large cast iron pillars which extend in a line, following the curve of both platforms back into the tunnel. 12 columns on one platform, 14 on the other. Sexagonal, with engaged shafts at each angle, panelled plinths and capitals. Painted cream.

Bow Road Underground Station, Nos 48-56 (even) with the front boundary wall form a group.

Listing NGR: TQ3711482736

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Legacy System number:: 205786
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.