Former Gilesgate Railway Station

The former Gilesgate Railway Station, built in 1844 by G.T. Andrews for the Durham and Sunderland Railway Company, is now used as builders' merchants. The building is constructed of sandstone ashlar with a Welsh slate roof. The passenger building is a single storey with seven bays, featuring a lower two-bay wing on the left and a one-bay link to an office block on the right. The central projecting bay has a keyed arch with voussoirs supported by pilasters, although this area is blocked with a window inserted. The first bay contains a boarded door with an overlight featuring glazing bars, while the right end bay has sashes with glazing bars and an inserted door. The building has an eaves band, a prominent cornice, and a blocking course. The set-back left wing includes a 20th-century one-bay link, two keyed arches with pilasters and voussoirs, an impost band that is partly removed, and a cornice with a blocking course. The right link is obscured, and the rear of the building shows massive boarded doors leading to the engine shed. Inside the shed, iron trusses support a partly-glazed roof, and wooden platforms remain.

The office block on the right is two storeys high with two bays. It features steps leading up to a four-panelled door with an overlight set in a Tuscan doorcase. There is a canted bay on the right with a semicircular cellar grille, a sill band, and two first-floor sashes in plain reveals. The building has a low-pitched hipped roof with central and rear corniced ashlar chimneys.