Listed Building record TQ 53 NE 156 - FORMER TUNBRIDGE WELLS WEST RAILWAY STATION

Summary

Grade II listed building. Main construction periods 1800 to 1899.

Location

Grid reference TQ 5786 3846 (point)
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 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