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Station Approach, PINNER, HA5 4HU

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.

The central part features symbolically England, Ireland and Scotland, the outer pendants are a bit of a mystery, probably something to do with harvest abundance. The whole thing bears no relation to the LNWR arms or crest. The building is grade II listed.

The clock tower stands above the 1911 booking hall designed by Gerald C Horsley. The clock is showing the right time.

Now operating under the London Overground banner. It was built by the LNWR in 1911 in a rather grand style.

In the grade II listed station building, 1911 for the LNWR. The door is now private according to the small sign.

This entrance block is grade II listed, 1911 for the LNWR.

Hatch End may have been no more than a mundane outer suburban station, but the London & North Western Railway spared no effort when it was rebuilt in 1911. The booking hall was designed by Gerald C Horsley and he incorporated this intricate design on the front of the building.