Description

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TQ 18 NE THE BRIDGE (West Side)
4/19 Station platform buildings at
Harrow and Wealdstone Railway
Station comprising ticket
office range, platform, waiting
room blocks, platform canopies
and linking pedestrian bridge.

II GV

Railway station platform buildings and canopies. 1875 and 1911, with
later alterations. For the London and North Western Railway Company.
Platform 1 ticket office range of cream brick in Flemish bond with
stucco, ashlar and yellow-brick dressings; other platform buildings
have plinths of red brick in Flemish bond and wooden superstructures;
iron/steel-columned canopies; felted and part-glazed roofs. The south-
western ticket office range and platform canopies to platforms 1 and 2/3
are of 1875'; the infill platform building on platform 2/3 and those on
platforms 4/5 and 6/7 are 1911, as also is the pedestrian bridge which
links all the platforms to each other and to the main, north-eastern,
station building (The Bridge, q.v.). South-western ticket office range:
north-east (line-side) elevation: 6, 5, 9 bays, the 5 central bays
recessed twice. Segmental-arched openings. Panelled doors, some
blocked and some replaced by windows, the 2 at centre with side lights
and mullioned and transomed overlights. Sash windows, some bricked up
and 2 at left end with late C20 replacements. Ashlar-corniced brick
stacks. South-west (car park side) elevation: 6, 3, 3, 5 bays, bays
10-12 projecting and having main entrance, end blocks further recessed.
Plinth; impost band; rusticated quoins to entrance block; segmental
yellow-brick arches to openings, but round-arched openings to bays 10-15
and those to bays 10-12 with keystones; oversailing roof with
decorative brackets to bays 7-12. Left-hand section has bricked-up
openings; bays 13-15 have recesses flanking centre, that on left
formerly a doorway. Waiting-room blocks on Platforms 2/3, 4/5 and 6/7:
13 bays having close-spaced 6-pane sashes with overlights, and part-
glazed panelled doors, all with architraved heads. Dentilled eaves
cornice. Roofed by platform canopies. Corniced brick stacks. Some
openings blocked, and some late C20 replacement windows. Late C20 8-bay
block on platform 2/3 not of special interest. Platform canopies on
platform 1 and 2/3: have cylindrical columns with panelled bases, plain
capitals, and arch braces with decorative spandrels supporting wooden
canopy. Canopy on platform 1 has paired part-glazed cross-gabled
sections of roofing above main entrances; canopy on platform 2/3 has
similar tripled sections at centre. Platform canopies on platforms 4/5
and 6/7: have square columns with integral rain-water down-pipes, plain
plinths and capitals; they carry cross-braced girders which support the
part-glazed canopies. Covered Pedestrian bridge: has continuous
glazing to upper part of walls and glazed sides to canopies which cover
the steel stairs down to platforms.

Listing NGR: TQ1547589430

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q66477486

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