Number 1 Old Engine Houses, including steps and retaining wall

House, originally associated with the engine house for the Brusselton inclines, mid-late 1820s for the Stockton & Darlington Railway.

MATERIALS: coursed local rubble stone, the west gable above the roofline of the neighbouring property being rendered brickwork; renewed pantile roof; rebuilt modern brick chimney stack.

PLAN: two rooms deep with the stair rising from the front door.

EXTERIOR: two-storey house with east and west gables that are raised and stone coped, the west gable having a four-flued ridge stack retaining two chimney pots. The elevations are asymmetric. The windows, of varying sizes, are all two-over-two pane horned sashes with plain monolithic lintels and slightly projecting sills. South: this has the front door to the far right, being of four-panels with a simple three-light overlight. To the left there is a single window with two slightly narrower windows to the first floor above. There is a butt joint with the quoins of the attached property to the west (2 Old Engine Houses, listed separately), the upper part of the west gable built on top the side wall of this neighbouring property. East: this is blind except for a single, centrally placed first-floor window and a single door to the ground floor off-set to the right (north), this having a three-light overlight and an enclosed lean-to timber porch. North: the ground surface is lower on this side of the building, this being the original railway track bed, so that the single window lighting the ground floor and the two first-floor windows all appear raised. Set into the wall, relative to the lowered ground surface, there is a Royal Mail post box.

SUBSIDIARY ITEMS: there is a straight flight of stone steps set against the north elevation leading to the raised garden to the east of the building. This garden is retained by a substantial stone wall incorporating several re-used sleeper stones.

NOTE: the surrounding area forms a scheduled monument.