North Dulwich Station Including Attached Bridge and Platforms, Southwark, London

Coordinates

Latitude: 51.4542 / 51°27'15"N

Longitude: -0.0883 / 0°5'17"W

OS Eastings: 532923

OS Northings: 174539

OS Grid: TQ329745

Mapcode National: GBR HL.0DQ

Mapcode Global: VHGR6.FQ51

Plus Code: 9C3XFW36+MM

Entry Name: North Dulwich Station Including Attached Bridge and Platforms

Listing Date: 29 July 1987

Grade: II

Source: Historic England

Source ID: 1385811

English Heritage Legacy ID: 471223

ID on this website: 101385811

Location: Herne Hill, Southwark, London, SE21

County: London

District: Southwark

Electoral Ward/Division: Village

Parish: Non Civil Parish

Built-Up Area: Southwark

Traditional County: Surrey

Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Greater London

Church of England Parish: North Dulwich St Faith

Church of England Diocese: Southwark

Tagged with: Railway station

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Description

SOUTHWARK

TQ3274 RED POST HILL
636-1/14/629 (East side)
29/07/87 North Dulwich Station including
attached bridge and platforms

GV II

Railway station. 1866-68. By Charles Barry Jnr. For the former
London Brighton and South Coast Railway.
MATERIALS: red brick with stone dressings; low pitched slate
roofs behind cornice and blocking course.
STYLE: Jacobean Revival.
EXTERIOR: asymmetrical front of 1 storey, right-hand bay 2
storeys. Central, slightly recessed entrance loggia with
coupled stone columns supporting 3 arches with masked
keystones (the central one missing). Set back behind loggia, 3
round-arched entranceways with decorative fan motifs in
tympana, band at spring and doors with dentilled cornice heads
and pilaster jambs. Banded, paired pilaster strips resting on
brick plinth, each with carved decoration between subsidiary
and main cornices, flank bays to either side of entrance
loggia. Square-headed mullioned windows of 3 lights to
right-hand 2-storey section. Later shop front to left-hand
bay.
To rear is glazed bridge over railway line with roofed,
arcaded stairways descending to platforms on either side. Huge
brick buttresses to cutting walls forming back of platforms.
Slender iron columns support corrugated iron platform
canopies.
(Biddle G: The Railway Heritage of Britain: 183).

Listing NGR: TQ3292374539

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