Soho House

House, early C19, for Timothy Hackworth, Superintendent of Locomotives for the Stockton & Darlington Railway 1825-1840, subsequently divided into two houses for railway managers. Renovated as a museum in 1975.

MATERIALS: dressed sandstone laid to courses, renewed pantile roof, buff brick chimney stacks with square, buff pots.

PLAN: appears as a pair of double-fronted properties with straight stairs rising from just inside their central front doors, the two being interconnected internally.

EXTERIOR: the frontage is quoined, being of two storeys and six bays, to appear as a symmetrical pair of properties, the central bay to the first floor of each property being blind, but with a reproduction lantern set above the central front doors below. The front door to each property is six-panelled and has a simple multi-paned overlight, all set within a 1975 reproduction classical-style doorcase with fluted pilasters supporting a frieze and cornice. Windows are renewed timber six-over-six pane sashes with monolithic lintels and projecting sills. The eaves has a moulded ashlar cornice. Gables are coped and have shaped kneelers. The end stacks and central ridge stack are matching, rebuilt in brick, each with three pots. The rear outshut, rebuilt in 1975, is of one-and-a-half storeys and has end stacks.

INTERIOR: is largely the result of renovation as 1970s refurbishment as part of the railway museum, Soho House including some reinstated Victorian fireplaces and kitchen ranges and items of joinery including some sets of window shutters.