Kenley Station House (Original 1856 Building)
KENLEY STATION HOUSE (ORIGINAL 1856 BUILDING), HAYES LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1388347
- Date first listed:
- 10-Aug-1999
- List Entry Name:
- Kenley Station House (Original 1856 Building)
- Statutory Address:
- KENLEY STATION HOUSE (ORIGINAL 1856 BUILDING), HAYES LANE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1388347
- Date first listed:
- 10-Aug-1999
- List Entry Name:
- Kenley Station House (Original 1856 Building)
- Statutory Address 1:
- KENLEY STATION HOUSE (ORIGINAL 1856 BUILDING), HAYES LANE
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:
- KENLEY STATION HOUSE (ORIGINAL 1856 BUILDING), HAYES LANE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Greater London Authority
- District:
- Croydon (London Borough)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- TQ3238860145
Details
TQ 36 SW HAYES LANE
Kenley Station House
1005/5/10050 (original 1856 building)
II
Railway station, now disused. 1856 for the Caterham Railway, architect Richard Whittall, enlarged c.1873. Squared stone with ashlar dressings. Render, tiled roofs. Gothic style. T-shaped plan with projecting porch. The entrance front has a large porch with a very steeply pitched roof on shaped wooden posts, a collar beam supports curved struts. Doorway with a plank door in a 2-centred arch. The porch is flanked by a single stack to the left and a double one to the right.
They project in red brick through the very steeply pitched roof with two diminishing stages and weathered caps. The elevation to the left has blocked windows, but 4 light below and 2 light in the acutely angled gable which has projecting timber bargeboards. The gable is filled by mock timber framing with render infill. Two storey wing to left with ridge stack. The platform elevation is similar to the gable but the wing is single storey with a blocked 4-light
window and steeply pitched roof above. c1873 single storey rendered extension to right with a blocked double sash window and flat roof. The chimney of this section has been demolished.
Interior not inspected.
History: The Caterham Railway was opened in 1856 as a single line from Purley to Caterham and this was the original Kenley station. The line was doubled in 1899 by the South Eastern Railway who had bought the line in 1859. The present station and footbridge were built at the time of doubling. The old station then became the station-master's house but it is now disused.
References: C.Awdry, Encyclopaedia of British Railway Companies, Patrick Stephens Limited, 1990, p 181.
C.F.Dendy Marshall, History of the Southern Railway, revised ed. Ian Allan, 1963, p 323.
Jeffrey Spence, Victorian and Edwardian Railways from old Photographs, Batsford, 1975, Plate 63 which shows the very similar but slightly larger old Caterham station complete with small platform canopy.
Nigel Wikeley and John Middleton, Railway Stations Southern Region, Peco Publications, 1971, plate 235, which shows the station with its windows and chimneys complete.
Listing NGR: TQ3238860145
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 476355
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Wikeley, , Middleton, , Railway Stations Southern Region, (1971)
Dendy Marshall, C F, History of the Southern Railway, (1963), 323
Awdry, C, Encyclopaedia of British Railway Companies, (1990), 181
Spence, J, Victorian and Edwardian Railways from Old Photographs, (1975)
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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