Soho Cottages

Former railway workers’ housing, early C19, for Timothy Hackworth, Superintendent of Locomotives for the Stockton & Darlington Railway 1825-1840. Restored in 1975.

MATERIALS: magnesium limestone rubble with sandstone lintels (the south eastern bay is of sandstone instead of limestone), a renewed pantile roof, buff brick chimney stacks with square, buff pots.

PLAN: altered but retaining evidence of the original division into cottages.

EXTERIOR: single-storey and of seven bays, originally divided into two double-fronted cottages with a single-fronted cottage to the south-east, the divisions being marked by twin-flued ridge stacks. The original central cottage has lost its front door (the infilling stonework being greyer than the surrounding masonry) being largely combined with the south-eastern cottage internally. Windows have dressed sandstone lintels and projecting sills and have renewed six-over-six paned sashes. The two front doors are six-panelled, set in plain openings with sandstone lintels. The front elevation includes a Stockton & Darlington Railway plaque (used to mark company-owned housing) with the number G9. The rear is altered, but not extended, detailed in a similar way to the front elevation.

INTERIOR: not inspected but reported to be the product of post-1970 renovation.