Mellbutts Bank

Mellbutts Bank is a railway station and station-master's house, built in 1847 for the Wear Valley line of the Stockton and Darlington railway. The building is constructed of painted brick with an ashlar-coped plinth and dressings, topped with a roof of renewed stone slates and featuring brick and ashlar chimneys. It is a single-storey structure with three bays, the central bay projecting. The central bay has a boarded door with elaborate iron hinges and handle, topped by a flat Tudor arch overlight and a tall stone surround with alternate-block jambs. Above this, there is a tall stone-mullioned window in a half-dormer beneath a tall gable that displays a stone shield with the date. The flanking bays each have three-light windows and two-light half-dormers in a similar style, with all gables featuring barge-boards. The steeply-pitched roof includes two ridge chimneys with tall polygonal brick stacks set on coped plinths. The right return side of the building, which faces the former platform, has a canted bay with a sloping stone-flagged roof.