Durham Railway Station Front Range

Durham Railway Station Front Range is a railway station built in 1857, likely designed by G.T. Andrews for the North Eastern Railway Company. The building is constructed from coursed squared sandstone with ashlar dressings and features a Welsh slate roof with stone gable copings. It is designed in the Tudor Gothic style and has an H-plan main block, with an extension to the left that includes a former water tower, and a short extension to the right.

The main block is two storeys high and consists of five bays. The central portico has three bays with double-chamfered Tudor arches on a plinth, leading up to the central arch with steps. It features diagonal buttresses and a battlemented parapet. The renewed doors at the centre and right have overlights, while the right door is a stone-mullioned over shouldered door. There is a cross window in the left bay. The windows above have stone mullions and transoms, with one and two lights. The gabled end bays contain a wide loading door on the left and a cross window on the right at ground level, with stone cross windows above and label moulds on the windows in the gabled bays. The roof is steeply pitched with a fishscale pattern, sloped copings resting on moulded kneelers, and truncated polygonal chimneys.

The left extension features a one-storey, three-bay link with casement windows and a steeply-pitched roof, connecting to the battlemented tower that has a blocked arcade. There is a small outbuilding to the left of the main block with a shouldered surround to the door on the right return and sloped coping to the wall. The one-storey, one-bay right extension is designed in a similar style.