Number 2 Old Engine Houses, including marker stone

House, originally the engine house for the Brusselton inclines operated 1825-1831 for the Stockton & Darlington Railway, converted to domestic use after 1831.

MATERIALS: tooled and squared local sandstone laid to courses; Welsh slate roof; rebuilt modern brick chimney stacks.

PLAN: central entrance plan with stair rising from the front door.

EXTERIOR: the two-storey house has a west-facing single-pitch roof, the west gable of 1 Old Engine Houses (separately listed) extending above, built off the rear wall. The north and south end walls are stone coped, each having a centrally placed tall chimney stack, the elevations being quoined. West: effectively symmetrical three-bay elevation with a central, four-panel door flanked by two-over-two pane horned sash windows, with slightly shorter windows to the first floor, the central window being three -over-three pane. All of these openings have monolithic lintels, the windows having slightly projecting sills. The south end of the elevation is slightly covered by the northern end of a single storey range of outbuildings – this range being rebuilt in the late C20 in matching materials and style to the main house. North: most of this elevation is taken up with a tall, round-arched opening which has been infilled with stonework. The arch is formed with a single arch-ring of large, flush-set stone voussoirs, the key stone projecting slightly, the top of the keystone being just below the level of the eaves of the west elevation. This opening is considered to have allowed the installation (and later removal) of the steam winding engine for the inclines. South: this elevation is blind except for a now infilled circular opening about 1m in diameter set central to the elevation, its centre line being around the level of the eaves of the west elevation. This is interpreted as a former window opening. The elevation is quoined, the quoins butted up against by the rougher walling of 1 Old Engine Houses, the upper part of the west gable wall of number 1 being built on top of the rear (east) wall of 2 Old Engine Houses.

SUBSIDIARY ITEMS: the stone-built garden retaining wall that extends westwards from the north elevation incorporates a reset S&DR marker stone inscribed S 20½, this recording the mileage to Stockton.

NOTE: the surrounding area forms a scheduled monument.