Hatch End railway station
Introduction
The photograph on this page of Hatch End railway station by Nigel Cox as part of the Geograph project.
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Hatch End railway station
Image: © Nigel Cox Taken: 9 Jan 2011
This is the frontage of the Grade II Listed Hatch End railway station, originally built in 1911 for the London & North Western Railway to the designs of the architect Gerald C Horsley. The English Heritage Listed Buildings website describes it thus:- "Symmetrically composed. Red brick with stone dressings. Two arches to ground-storey with central sashed window and large decorative crest over. Left hand arch has doors with window over. Right hand arch is fully glazed above stone plinth. Channelled pilaster quoins with dentil cornice. Tile roof surmounted by pedimented cupola with inset clock. Single-storey, irregular wings to right and left." Sir John Betjeman was a great admirer of the station building and famously described it as being "half-way between a bank and a medium sized country house". Old Victorian Ordnance Survey maps, dated prior to the current building, describe the station as Pinner, rather than Hatch End.
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Image Location
Latitude
51.609373
Longitude
-0.36882