Durham Railway Station West Range and Canopy is a Grade II listed building in the County Durham local planning authority area, England. First listed on 10 March 1988. Railway station. 2 related planning applications.

Durham Railway Station West Range and Canopy

WRENN ID
dark-cornice-wagtail
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
County Durham
Constituency
City of Durham MP: Mary Kelly Foy (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
10 March 1988
Type
Railway station
Address
Durham Railway Station West Range and Canopy, Station Approach, City of Durham, DH1 4RB
OS grid reference
NZ 269 428
Coordinates
54.77984, -1.58191
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Durham Railway Station's west range and canopy, built around 1857, is likely designed by G.T. Andrews for the North Eastern Railway Company. The structure features coursed squared sandstone with ashlar dressings and a Welsh slate roof with stone gable copings. The main building is H-shaped with extensions, connected by a 20th-century addition to a lavatory block on the right. It is a single storey with eight bays and a one-bay block to the right. The main section has three mullioned-and-transomed six-light windows in the center, flanked by gabled bays that contain paired doors with two-paned overlights on the left and paired windows on the right, all under label moulds. There are further set-back one-bay sections, obscured on the left and featuring one window on the right. The steeply-pitched roof has sloped coping on kneelers and truncated octagonal chimneys.

The lavatory block is a single storey with one wide bay and five high square ventilators under the gable. The canopy has two ridges supported by cast iron Gothic beams and octagonal columns with leaf capitals. The doors leading to the platform are ledged and boarded.

Local climate

Durham Railway Station West Range and Canopy receives an average of 790 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 58% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 96% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 41 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 79% of listed buildings. Of these, 24 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.

Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.

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