Necropolis station for sale

History

A historic building – the last remaining element of a railway station where coffins and mourners left London for a cemetery in Surrey – is up for sale with an asking price of £4.2m.

The Grade II listed London Necropolis Railway offices in Westminster Bridge Road are on the market with planning permission for conversion to luxury flats.

The London Necropolis Railway operated from 1854 until its special platform at Waterloo was bombed in April 1941.

Coffin and mourner trains ran along the main line to Brookwood in Surrey, where a branch line led to the cemetery with its separate Anglican and Nonconformist stations.

Brookwood Cemetery was created at a time when an expanding London was running out of space for burials. Several local churches – including Southwark Cathedral and St George the Martyr – had their own burial grounds at Brookwood.

The Edwardian facade of London’s second Necropolis railway station – opened in 1902 – survived the Blitz and was converted into offices.

The building has been Grade II listed since 1989 and was most recently the offices of a firm of shipping agents.

Planning permission for the conversion to residential use is said by agents Dexters to have been approved by Lambeth Council, although the decision notice has not yet been published pending a section 106 agreement.

Seven luxury apartments are proposed within the building, which would also be extended at the back.

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Residential development for sale in Westminster Bridge Road, London, SE1 for £4,250,000. Marketed by Dexters Development and Investment, London