Railway Cottages

These three houses, formerly known as Railway Cottages, were originally built in 1856 as part of the Darlington and Barnard Castle Railway. Around 1861, the site became a goods station when the South Durham and Lancashire Union Railway Company opened a new station. The original portico, a prominent architectural feature, was removed in 1863 and incorporated into the Albert Memorial in Saltburn, Valley Gardens.

The building is constructed of pecked and margined ashlar with an ashlar plinth, pecked and margined quoins, and ashlar dressings. The roof is mainly Welsh slate with stone gable copings, grey ridge tiles, and stone and ashlar chimneys; some Lakeland slate patching is visible on the roof of number 9. The style is classical.

The exterior is single-storied and features a six-window range, with recessed blank end bays. The right-hand house has a rear wing. A rear extension to the right may have originally been a canopy. A central glazed door and overlight, set within an architrave with scroll brackets supporting a large cornice, now serves as the main entrance. The windows are renewed four-pane sashes within aedicules topped with pediments on scroll brackets. The low-pitched hipped roof has two tall corniced chimneys behind the ridge and one at the eaves of each end, with tall octagonal yellow pots featuring castellated vents. The return to the west has flat stone lintels over a half-glazed door and renewed sashes with glazing bars. The rear elevation has late 20th-century doors and windows. The south wing has a gable on moulded kneelers. A long rear outshut extends beneath a catslide roof. Prominent projecting roof lights are visible on the rear slope; a small one on number 8 and two large ones on number 9.

The interior has not been inspected.