London Bridge Station, Platforms 9-16 (Brighton Side)
LONDON BRIDGE STATION, PLATFORMS 9-16 (BRIGHTON SIDE), RAILWAY APPROACH
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1385808
- Date first listed:
- 19-Dec-1988
- List Entry Name:
- London Bridge Station, Platforms 9-16 (Brighton Side)
- Statutory Address:
- LONDON BRIDGE STATION, PLATFORMS 9-16 (BRIGHTON SIDE), RAILWAY APPROACH
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1385808
- Date first listed:
- 19-Dec-1988
- List Entry Name:
- London Bridge Station, Platforms 9-16 (Brighton Side)
- Statutory Address 1:
- LONDON BRIDGE STATION, PLATFORMS 9-16 (BRIGHTON SIDE), RAILWAY APPROACH
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.
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:
- LONDON BRIDGE STATION, PLATFORMS 9-16 (BRIGHTON SIDE), RAILWAY APPROACH
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Greater London Authority
- District:
- Southwark (London Borough)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- TQ3295580101
Details
TQ3280
636-1/2/627
19/12/88
SOUTHWARK
RAILWAY APPROACH
(East side)
London Bridge Station, Platforms 9-16 (Brighton Side)
II
Trainshed. 1864-7. By CH Driver (architect) and FD Banister
(engineer). For London Brighton and South Coast Railway.
MATERIALS: English bond yellow brick with stone and
polychromatic brick dressings; hipped flanking taller
semicircular corrugated iron roofs.
PLAN: open plan with wide central 'nave' and narrower aisles.
EXTERIOR: 2-storey wall to south (facing St Thomas's Street)
with bays framed by Tuscan pilasters rising to modillioned
classical cornice. Ground floor has semicircular arches,
mostly blind and in triplets; a skewed entrance arch with
polychromatic brick voussoirs. First floor has triplets of
graduated semicircular blind arches with polychromatic brick
voussoirs, set on pilasters with bold stone plinths and
Romanesque-style capitals.
INTERIOR: inner walls divided into 12 bays by pilasters rising
to classical stone cornice, most bays having 4 semicircular
blind arches with polychromatic brick voussoirs and red-brick
bands and friezes. 12-bay roof with wrought-iron trusses:
central semicircular roof of crescent-truss design with
vertical struts, flanked by 2 side roofs of triangular trusses
carried on lattice girders; late C20 trusses to 3 bays to
south west. Principal ribs and lattice girders carried by 2
parallel lines of reeded cast-iron columns with bulbous
palm-leaf bases and decorative wrought-iron foliate spandrels
to joints. Open to east (country) side.
The crescent-truss roof is the only surviving design of its
type among the London termini.
Listing NGR: TQ3295580101
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 471220
- 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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