Durham Railway Station Front Range

DURHAM AND FRAMWELLGATE STATION APPROACH NZ 24 SE and NZ 2742 NW (North end)

4 and 9/462 Durham Railway Station front range

GV II

Railway station. 1857, probably by G.T. Andrews for North Eastern Railway Company. Coursed squared sandstone with ashlar dressings; Welsh slate roof with stone gable copings. Main block H-plan; extension to left, including former water tower; short extension to right. Tudor Gothic style.

Main block: 2 storeys, 5 bays; 3-bay central portico has double-chamfered Tudor arches on plinth, with steps up to the central arch; diagonal buttresses and battlemented parapet. Renewed doors at centre and right have overlights, the right stone-mullioned over shouldered door; cross window in left bay. Stone mullions and transoms to windows of 1 and 2 lights above. Gabled end bays contain wide loading door at left and cross window at right on ground floor; stone cross windows above; label moulds to windows in gabled bays. Steeply-pitched roof of fishscale pattern; sloped copings resting on moulded kneelers; truncated polygonal chimneys. Left extension has one-storey 3-bay link (with casements and steeply- pitched roof) to battlemented tower on blocked arcade. Small outbuilding to left of main block has shouldered surround to door in right return; sloped coping to wall. One-storey one-bay right extension in similar style.

Listing NGR: NZ2699642763