Description

AYLESFORD CP

TQ 75 NW & TQ 7258
8/92 and 12/92

STATION ROAD
(north side)
Aylesford Station

GV
II

Railway station. 1856. For South-Eastern Railway. Random dressed stone with
ashlar quoins and dressings. Plain and fish scale tiled roof with left end stack
to left wing and right end stack to taller central block, both corbelled out from
the gable. The upper parts of the stacks have been taken down leaving tall
square plinths. Projecting stack on front of outer right-hand wing. Gable
parapets with kneelers and ridge crestings. 1½ storeys, except 2 storeys in
inner right-hand wing and 1 storey in outer right-hand wing. Central block:
Central gabled semi-dormer with gable parapets and kneelers. 1-bay first floor,
2-bay ground floor, all 2-light mullioned windows with hexagonal lozenge lattice
iron casements. Central entrance with depressed pointed arch and later C20
glazed doors and over-light. Left wing: 1 bay with gabled semi-dormer with
parapet and kneelers containing sash window over 2-light mullion window below
with hexagonal lozenge lattice iron casements. Extension to left 1 storey with
single lattice casement to right and coped parapet. Inner right wing: 1 bay with
lattice casements. Outer right wing: Lower blank coped gable end abutted by
1 storey gabled block to the front and right. Stack, already mentioned above, on
front face, with arched doorway and single lattice casement in left-hand
re-entrant angle. Designed to match in style and materials the needy school (qv).

Listing NGR: TQ7201158690

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26482124

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Recommended Books

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  Worcestershire Revised Edition (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Lancashire: Liverpool and the South-West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Suffolk: West: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Devon (Pevsner Buildings of England)
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  A Buying and Owning a Listed Building: A Brief Guide
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  Pevsner's Architectural Glossary (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Introductions)