Paddington, District and Circle Line Underground Station
PADDINGTON, DISTRICT AND CIRCLE LINE UNDERGROUND STATION, PRAED STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1392020
- Date first listed:
- 11-Aug-2003
- List Entry Name:
- Paddington, District and Circle Line Underground Station
- Statutory Address:
- PADDINGTON, DISTRICT AND CIRCLE LINE UNDERGROUND STATION, PRAED STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1392020
- Date first listed:
- 11-Aug-2003
- List Entry Name:
- Paddington, District and Circle Line Underground Station
- Statutory Address 1:
- PADDINGTON, DISTRICT AND CIRCLE LINE UNDERGROUND STATION, PRAED STREET
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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:
- PADDINGTON, DISTRICT AND CIRCLE LINE UNDERGROUND STATION, PRAED STREET
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 26698 81190
Details
1900/0/10307 PRAED STREET 11-AUG-03 Paddington, District and Circle Line Underground Station
GV II
Paddington District and Circle Line Underground Station. Train shed and platforms of 1866-68 by (Sir) John Fowler, engineer to the Metropolitan Railway. Street frontage rebuilt 1914 by Charles W. Clark, engineer to the Metropolitan Railway. Yellow brick, iron roof, white-glazed faience. EXTERIOR: central entrance flanked on each side by three shops. Two storeys. Projecting canopy with heavy scrolled consoles, segmental arched entrance with keystone. Ground floor shops divided by piers; left-handmost shop retains original shop front. Canted ends. First floor with 17 windows, each within a framed surround; some blind panels between them. Rusticated quoins to angles, and to slightly projecting centre-piece. Modillion cornice over frieze, latter inscribed in Roman capitals over entrance PADDINGTON STATION. Raised parapet to centre (originally topped with urns) inscribed METROPOLITAN RAILWAYS. INTERIOR: BOOKING HALL: much altered in c.1990 and clad in white tiles. No surviving features of note. INTERIOR: TRAIN SHED: retaining walls to cutting of tuck-pointed yellow (Halsey) brick with two-tier blind arcade; arcade of 20 bays on southern (westbound) side, of 22 bays on northern (eastbound) side. Segmental iron roof, part-glazed, with principal arches springing from cast iron foliate brackets; trussed purlins; roof in 2 sections, of 5 bays to west of booking hall, 3 to east; roof open at each end of the platforms. Booking hall built across centre of tracks and platforms; footbridge with latticed sides spans tracks to west. HISTORY: this station was originally Paddington Praed Street, and formed the northern end of the Metropolitan Railway's southwards extension to Gloucester Road, sanctioned by an Act of 1864. It opened on 1st October 1868. The earlier 1863 section of the Metropolitan Railway, the world's first underground line, terminated at a separate and now-demolished station named Paddington Bishop's Road. The Metropolitan Line was built as a 'cut and cover' project: the open ends of the roof enabled smoke and steam to escape, in order to improve ventilation along its length. Fowler's entrance and booking hall were later rebuilt in Charles Clark's characteristic white faience. SOURCES: 'The Builder' 3rd October 1868, 725-26; Lawrence Menear, 'London's Underground Stations' (1983), 9-13; David Lawrence, 'Underground Architecture' (1994), 12-13, 60. TQ2669881192
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 500816
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Lawrence, D, Underground Architecture, (1994), 12-13, 60
Menear, L, Londons Underground Stations, (1985), 9-13
The Builder in 3 October, (1868), 725-6
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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