6 ONSERVATIONGOES UNDERGROUND Aidan Duffy and David Wrightson describe terracottta and steel conservation at Gloucester Road Tube Station. London SW7 Gloucester Road Tube Station is situated in the heart of London and serves the District, Piccadilly and Circle lines of the city's underground system. The station comprises two separate buildings -one faced in buffbrick, the other in glazed red terracotta, and it is the latter building that is the subject of this article. The building is one of forty similar stations designed by Leslie Green and was built in 1906. It consists of two main elevations, one facing onto Courtfield Road, the other onto Gloucester Road itself. Both facades are similar in appearance with square pilasters surmounted byan abacus at ground floor, this supporting an entablature over which are bull's eye windows; at the top of the building is an architrave, frieze, cornice and parapet. The original condition of 1:re:··:11:1LS --:Of'1 ST1-\:-rl'CliEf)NS N'.' 14 15 .. It 1.6 SCJ\L[ • I INCH -·To-ONE FCJOT the building is illustrated in the photograph which was taken in 1928. The cladding now exhibits a number of problems, the most serious of which is Figure 1: Original drawing from the archive of London Underground Ltd The steel members are large enough to take the load from the (intended) building above. CONTEXT49
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