Former Railway Station

WOLSINGHAM WEAR BANK NZ 03 NE (East side, off) Wolsingham 24/406 Former railway station II Railway station, now house. Dated 1847; for Wear Valley branch of Stockton and Darlington Railway. Yellow brick with plinth and ashlar dressings; stone-flagged roof with stone gable copings. H-plan. Gothic style. Main building 2 storeys, 3 bays, the central wide and the outer gabled. Central boarded door, with elaborate hinges and handle, in Tudor-arched surround with integral hood-mould. Square-headed surrounds in similar style to narrow flanking sashes, 2 blind windows above containing blank high-relief stone shields, and central half- dormer with slit in gable peak. Projecting outer bays contain windows in similar style,of 2 or 3 lights,and a canted bay at right on ground floor with battlemented stone-flagged roof. All windows stone-mullioned with sloping sills. Large curved kneelers support moulded gable coping; ball finials on kneelers and outer gables. Steeply-pitched roof has polygonal brick chimneys on ashlar plinths in groups of 2 on main ridge and 3 on end ridges. Rear has platform canopy linking outer gables.

Small one-storey, 2-bay building at right in similar style with L-plan completed by linking wall to main building; Tudor-arched door in link, door and window in gable to front at left. Roll-moulded coping on link wall.

Interior: many original fittings, with waiting-room benches, Gothic chimney- pieces, and main first-floor board-room with stucco cornice.

Listing NGR: NZ0754236823