STOCKWELL BUS GARAGE
List Entry Summary
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
Name: STOCKWELL BUS GARAGE
List entry Number: 1249757
Location
STOCKWELL BUS GARAGE, BINFIELD ROAD
The building may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
County: Greater London Authority
District: Lambeth
District Type: London Borough
Parish:
National Park: Not applicable to this List entry.
Grade: II*
Date first listed: 29-Mar-1988
Date of most recent amendment: Not applicable to this List entry.
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Legacy System: LBS
UID: 431970
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History
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Details
TQ 3076
11/147
GREATER LONDON
LAMBETH
BINFIELD ROAD
Stockwell Bus Garage
GV
II*
Bus garage, ancillary service buildings and offices. 1952-53 by Adie, Button and Partners with Thomas Bilbow, for London Transport Executive. A E Beer, engineer. Reinforced concrete with some brick cladding and brick offices.
Rectangular shed of ten arches linked by longitudinal H-beams containing services; with cantilevered barrel vaults between, topped by large skylights and crossed by smaller ribs to prevent torsion on ruin arches. Nine bays, main arches expressed externally as outward-leaning buttresses, with a segmental curve to each bay forming a flowing roof line.
Facade to Lansdowne Way has double folding doors to central end bays, other bays with glazing of twenty vertical lights; all have similarly-glazed segmental toplights with central louvres over. End walls have fully-glazed segmental gables of 84 vertical lights, that to right with double folding door below to right, that to left with fourteen five-light metal windows below. Facade to Binfield Road has six bays in pairs with double folding doors; facade marked from road by servicing and decking pits, and workshop and office accommodation angled on Binfield Road. One storey workshops to left of seven bays with four-light metal casements; offices and canteen to right of two storeys and eight bays with right return to entrance driveway of seven bays with central double door: four-light casements below, tall two-light casements of eight square panes above. Ribbed and vaulted construction fully exposed and expressed in garage interior.
Architect and Building News, 12 November 1953, pp 579-82. Architect's Journal, 31 December 1953, pp 820-2. The National Builder, January 1954, pp198-9.
Listing NGR: TQ3035976686
Selected Sources
Books and journals
'The National Builder' in January, (1954), 198-9
'Architect and Building News' in 12 November, (1953), 579-82
Other
31 December, (1953)
National Grid Reference: TQ 30359 76686
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