Soho Cottages

Soho Cottages is a former housing development for railway workers, built in the early 19th century for Timothy Hackworth, who was the Superintendent of Locomotives for the Stockton & Darlington Railway from 1825 to 1840. The building was restored in 1975.

The cottages are constructed from magnesium limestone rubble with sandstone lintels, although the south-eastern bay is made of sandstone instead of limestone. The roof is covered with renewed pantiles, and there are buff brick chimney stacks with square, buff pots.

The plan of the building has been altered but still shows evidence of its original layout as cottages. It is a single-storey structure with seven bays, which was originally divided into two double-fronted cottages and one single-fronted cottage to the south-east. The divisions are marked by twin-flued ridge stacks. The central cottage has lost its front door, with infilling stonework that is greyer than the surrounding masonry, and it has largely been combined with the south-eastern cottage internally. The windows feature dressed sandstone lintels and projecting sills, and they have renewed six-over-six paned sashes. The two front doors are six-panelled and are set in plain openings with sandstone lintels. The front elevation includes a plaque from the Stockton & Darlington Railway, which marks company-owned housing, with the number G9. The rear of the building has been altered but not extended, and it is detailed similarly to the front elevation.

The interior has not been inspected but is reported to have been renovated after 1970.