Former Railway Station

The former railway station, now a house, was built in 1847 for the Wear Valley branch of the Stockton and Darlington Railway. It is constructed of yellow brick with a plinth and ashlar dressings, featuring a stone-flagged roof with stone gable copings. The building is designed in an H-plan and exhibits Gothic style elements.

The main structure is two storeys high and has three bays, with the central bay being wider and the outer bays gabled. The central entrance features a boarded door with elaborate hinges and handle, set within a Tudor-arched surround that includes an integral hood-mould. The outer bays contain windows with square-headed surrounds in a similar style, alongside narrow flanking sashes. Above, there are two blind windows that hold blank high-relief stone shields, and a central half-dormer with a slit in the gable peak. The projecting outer bays have windows styled similarly, with two or three lights, and there is a canted bay on the right side of the ground floor topped with a battlemented stone-flagged roof. All windows are stone-mullioned with sloping sills.

The roof is steeply pitched and features polygonal brick chimneys on ashlar plinths, arranged in groups of two on the main ridge and three on the end ridges. At the rear, a platform canopy connects the outer gables.

To the right, there is a small one-storey, two-bay building in a similar style, forming an L-plan that is completed by a linking wall to the main building. This link features a Tudor-arched door, with a door and window in the gable to the front left. The link wall has roll-moulded coping.

Inside, the station retains many original fittings, including waiting-room benches, Gothic chimney-pieces, and a main first-floor board-room with a stucco cornice.