Listed Building record TQ 75 NW 258 - AYLESFORD STATION

Summary

Grade II listed building. Main construction periods 1856 to 1856 Aylesford station is one of three Tudor style stations built by the SER and the only one built in ragstone.The building is two storeys high with tall gables and chimneys. It is of rubblestone construction with ashlar margins but no platform canopy. There is a matching level-crossing keeper's house. The station was opened in 1856.

Location

Grid reference TQ 72011 58690 (point)
Map sheet TQ75NW
County KENT
District TONBRIDGE AND MALLING, KENT
Civil Parish AYLESFORD, TONBRIDGE AND MALLING, KENT

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Full Description

The following text is from the original listed building designation:
AYLESFORD CP STATION ROAD TQ 75 NW & TQ 7258 (north side) 8/92 and 12/92 Aylesford Station
GV II
Railway station. 1856. For South-Eastern Railway. Random dressed stone with ashlar quoins and dressings. Plain and fish scale tiled roof with left end stack to left wing and right end stack to taller central block, both corbelled out from the gable. The upper parts of the stacks have been taken down leaving tall square plinths. Projecting stack on front of outer right-hand wing. Gable parapets with kneelers and ridge crestings. 1½ storeys, except 2 storeys in inner right-hand wing and 1 storey in outer right-hand wing. Central block: Central gabled semi-dormer with gable parapets and kneelers. l-bay first floor, 2-bay ground floor, all 2-light mullioned windows with hexagonal lozenge lattice iron casements. Central entrance with depressed pointed arch and later C20 glazed doors and over-light. Left wing: 1 bay with gabled semi-dormer with parapet and kneelers containing sash window over 2-light mullion window below with hezagonal lozenge lattice iron casements. Extension to left 1 storey with single lattice casement to right and coped parapet. Inner right wing: 1 bay with lattice casements. Outer right wing: Lower blank coped gable end abutted by 1 storey gabled block to the front and right. Stack, already mentioned above, on front face, with arched doorway and single lattice casement in left-hand re-entrant angle. Designed to match in style and materials the needy school (qv).
Listing NGR: TQ7279358806 (1)

Description from record TQ 75 NW 110:
One of three Tudor style stations built by the SER and the only one built in ragstone. Opened in 1856 the station is two storeys with tall gables and chimneys. It is of rubblestone construction with ashlar margins but no platform canopy and a matching level crossing keepers house. Still largely intact. (2)


<1> English Heritage, List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest (Map). SKE16160.

<2> Not applicable, SMR Kent uncatalogued index entry, J Minnis SE&CR (Southern County Stations 2) (Ian Allen 1985) (Miscellaneous Material). SKE6440.

<3> G. A. Buck, 1992, A Pictorial Survey of Railway Stations (Monograph). SKE54788.

Sources/Archives (3)

  • <1>XY Map: English Heritage. List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest. [Mapped feature: #35923 Railway station, ]
  • <2> Miscellaneous Material: Not applicable. SMR Kent uncatalogued index entry. J Minnis SE&CR (Southern County Stations 2) (Ian Allen 1985).
  • <3> Monograph: G. A. Buck. 1992. A Pictorial Survey of Railway Stations.

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Record last edited

Sep 7 2023 5:44PM