KINGS CROSS STATION
Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1078328
- Date first listed:
- 10-Jun-1954
- Statutory Address:
- KINGS CROSS STATION, EUSTON ROAD
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Location
- Statutory Address:
- KINGS CROSS STATION, EUSTON ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Greater London Authority
- District:
- Camden (London Borough)
- National Grid Reference:
- TQ 30269 83130
Details
CAMDEN
TQ3083SW EUSTON ROAD
798-1/85/420 (North side)
10/06/54 King's Cross Station
GV I
Railway terminus. 1850-52. By Lewis Cubitt (architect), and
Sir William and Joseph Cubitt (engineers). Yellow stock brick.
2 train sheds (originally 1 for arrivals, the other for
departure) closed by monumental plain brick screen of 2 glazed
semicircular openings, framed with recessed arches (echoing
the train sheds behind) with central and flanking towers;
ground storey obscured by late C20 additions. Central tower
with rectangular clock turret with pyramidical roof, eaves
cornice and weather vane. To the west, 3 storey 3 window
office block with booking hall and service rooms at rear; 1st
floor with thin, debased Venetian windows, cornice at 2nd
floor level, 2nd floor segmental-arched sashes (flanking bays
tripartite), cornice. On east side, an extension with archway
to the cab drive (now bricked up); rusticated surround to arch
and quoins; cornice above which 3 tripartite sashes and
parapet.
INTERIOR: train sheds separated by round-arched brick
colonnade. Originally, train shed roofs of laminated wood,
inspired by the Crystal Palace, but these rapidly deteriorated
and were replaced by the present iron-ribbed roofs to the
eastern shed 1869-70, to the western 1886-7. (Laminated wood
trusses successfully used at 26 Pancras Road (qv).
HISTORICAL NOTE: when opened as the terminus of the Great
Northern Railway, was the largest station in England and is
the earliest great London terminus still intact.
The contrast of its functional simplicity with St Pancras
Station next door (qv) is powerful.
(Hunter M and Thorne R: Change at King's Cross: London: -1990:
59-64).
Listing NGR: TQ3026983130
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 477247
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Hunter, M, Thorne, R, Change at Kings Cross, (1990), 59-64
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
End of official listing
