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2.2.3 The south of the Barking Station Masterplan area lies within the Abbey and
Barking Town Centre Conservation Area. The Abbey and Barking Town Centre
Conservation Appraisal (2009) highlights the need to incorporate the few
remaining heritage assets into the regeneration of the area. The built heritage of
the town centre offers important clues as to how to create a sense of place
distinctive to Barking. These buildings and their settings should be retained,
enhanced and used as inspiration for future development.
Barking Station
2.2.4 The present station, the fourth on the same general site, is grade II listed 8 . The
booking hall, which dates from the British Railway Modernisation Period, was
designed and built between 1959 and 1963. The image below shows the station
as it was in the early 1960s. The simple, continuous facia and clear views through
the glazed corners brought light into the concourse on all four sides.
2.2.5 The station formed part of a wider urban development scheme, which included
the creation of Station Parade as a planned streetscape of shops and offices on
the railway overbridge.
2.2.6 A bold and innovative structure, the station is formed from cast and pre-stressed
concrete. Although not formally acknowledged, the concept for the main station
building appears to have been inspired by the main station in Rome, completed in
1950.
Figure 8: Barking Station shortly after completion in 1961
8 Listing text for the Barking Station Booking Hall: Station booking hall. 1961.
Architect H H Powell, Eastern Region Architect; Project Architect John Ward. Fair-faced concrete and
precast concrete with much glazing. The booking hall stands on a bridge over railway tracks and is fourteen
bays long. The concrete roof trusses span the booking hall in three unequal pitches, and are
cranked out over the road to provide cover for waiting cars. The fascia to the roof over the road is vertically
ribbed fair-faced concrete. High level glazing surrounds the building on all elevations and front is
fully glazed. Station trading units have been added in recent years adjacent to the street glazing, but
there is still a fine sense of space within the hall. A well proportioned and well detailed building.
Listing NGR: TQ4441784334
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