Transformer station for London Transport and memorial to physicist and chemist Michael Faraday. Designed by Rodney Gordon whilst he was in the employment of the London County Council. Designed 1959; built 1960-61. Black-painted steel structural supports and square stainless steel dished panels cladding enclosure. Flat roof. Rectangular plan with 4 supports, one to each side, which are proud of the cladding and the roof; the rectangular enclosure is suspended within. Recessed black-painted plinth. A building of architectural quality and panache; also an early British example of the use of stainless steel as a cladding skin and a building which looks forward in its language and materials to the “high tech” of the 1970s and 1980s.

Listed: Grade ll
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