Railway Station

This railway station, now used as shops, a restaurant, and a railway station, was built in 1861, likely by West Peachey for the Stockton and Darlington Railway. It is constructed of cream brick with ashlar dressings and cast-iron windows, and has a Welsh slate roof with brick and ashlar chimneys. The building is designed in a Classical style.

The railway station is a single-storey, 19-bay range, with a central 5-bay section that is higher and projects forward, featuring a 3-bay portico. The outer sections of 7 bays each have central 2-bay projections. The central block has ashlar plinths and capitals to shallow Tuscan pilasters with entasis, defining the portico and flanking bays. The portico has jewelled keys to round arches with ashlar architraves resting on recessed pilasters. Windows in the flanking bays and the openings behind the portico’s side doors and the central window have a similar style, with cabled shafts and Lombardic tracery. The doors have curved brackets to archivolts and radiating glazing bars to semi-circular overlights. A deep entablature rests on the pilasters and has a blocking course, behind which is a low-pitched hipped roof. The flanking wings each have a central 2-bay projection, breaking forward under a hipped roof. The right wing has scroll brackets and an entablature to a segmental-headed ashlar surround to the door in the second bay from the end. Renewed doors and windows with pilasters are present. The polychrome brick heads on an ashlar impost string feature on the windows, and a plain door is located to the left of the centre block. Headings are round in the link blocks and raised and segmental in the projections. A bracketed eaves cornice runs along the building; the roof has yellow terracotta ridge tiles and tall chimneys at the side eaves of the central hipped roof and on the ridge of the wings. A lower corner lavatory block, situated between the centre of the building and the wing on the right, has two segmental-headed windows, a door in the right return, and an ashlar entablature. The interior of the station was not inspected.