Acklington Station

Acklington Station is a railway station that has been converted into a private house. It was built around 1847 by Benjamin Green for the Newcastle and Berwick Railway Company. The building features squared tooled stone with tooled ashlar dressings and has Welsh slate roofs. The main structure is designed in an H-plan, with single-storey wings to the north and south-west, and an outshut to the south, all in a Tudor style.

The west elevation of the main part is two storeys high and consists of one large bay flanked by two smaller bays. The centre has a part-blocked doorway on the right and a two-light window, with smaller windows above in gabled half dormers. There are two ridge stacks present. The gabled end bays are set slightly forward: the left bay features a part-blocked doorway flanked by small windows, topped with a canted oriel that has a cornice and low parapet. There is a slit in the gable and a lateral stack on the left return. The right bay has a gable stack that is partly behind a projecting single-storey wing, which has a part-blocked door on the left return. To the far left, there is a single-storey three-bay section with a renewed door beneath a two-pane fanlight and a ridge stack. Some parts have a chamfered plinth, and the doorways are mostly flat-pointed or four-centred, with later windows inserted. The small-paned casements have been renewed, and all openings are framed in raised chamfered surrounds with extended lintels, sills, and mid-blocks, many of which are topped with straight dripmoulds. The gables are coped on moulded kneelers, with some retaining ball finials, and the stacks are stepped and corniced with multiple shafts.

The rear elevation facing the railway is similar to the main parts, but the cross-wings extend further to flank the platform canopy, which now has a 20th-century part-glazed front wall and an empty clock surround above. The right wing features a canted ground-floor bay, while the single-storey part to the right retains its unaltered canopy, an extension of the slated roof supported by an arcade of five timber posts with wavy braces to the axial and transverse canopy members.