Listed Building record TQ 53 NE 156 - FORMER TUNBRIDGE WELLS WEST RAILWAY STATION
Summary
Location
Grid reference | TQ 5786 3846 (point) |
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Map sheet | TQ53NE |
County | KENT |
District | TUNBRIDGE WELLS, KENT |
Civil Parish | ROYAL TUNBRIDGE WELLS, TUNBRIDGE WELLS, KENT |
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Full Description
The following text is from the original listed building designation:
LINDEN PARK ROAD 1. 5285 Former Tunbridge Wells West Railway Station TQ 53 NE SP/616 II 2. Railway station building on former London, Brighton and South Coast Railway. 1866; possibly designed by the Chief Engineer, F Dale Banister, designer of other station buildings on the line. Red brick with fancy ashlar and black brick dressings; slate hipped roof; brick stacks. Two storey, ten bay centre block, which is flanked on west firstly by narrow, two storey, gable fronted wing and, secondly, by single storey, seven bay wing; flanked on east by three storey tower with pyramidal roof truncated by square louvred cupola with weathervane. Centre block with brick and stone plinth and with series of nine round-arched windows and one similarly arched doorway on ground floor, with brick and stone voussoirs and decorated ashlar impost band connecting the windows; sash windows. Ashlar band to first floor; basket headed first floor windows, with band at eaves. Serrated brick eaves with ashlar cornice on foliated brackets. Similar platform elevation with C19 iron columns and boarded canopy. Interior: booking hall with contemporary panelled ceiling and round-arched three bay columned arcade; similar columns along boundary with former ticket office. Tower: round-headed sash windows, two to ground and three to first floor; on second floor, continuous splayed cill band to tall round-headed brick and ashlar arch on stumpy columns enclosing circular clock face. The engine shed and loading bay buildings are not of special interest.
Listing NGR: TQ5910539794 (1)
this was also the site of railway station on the East Grinstead - Tunbridge Wells extension of 1884 to the South Croydon - East Grinstead line. Closed 1961.
Historic England archive material: RO/06988/001 A copy of a photograph showing the entrance front of Tunbridge Wells West Station from the north with a line of horse-drawn taxis on the left The original photograph has 'S 5577' and 'L.B. & S.C. Railway Station, Tunbridge Wells' printed on the front.
<1> English Heritage, List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest (Map). SKE16160.
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- <1>XY SKE16160 Map: English Heritage. List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest. [Mapped feature: #37425 railway station, ]
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Record last edited
Sep 27 2023 11:06AM