Whitley Bay Station Main Building With Train Shed

Whitley Bay Station is a railway station passenger building and train shed, dated 1910 on the tower. It was designed for the North Eastern Railway Company by engineer William Bell. The structure is built of brick with ashlar quoins and dressings, featuring an ashlar-coped plinth. The roof is made of Welsh slate with glass lights and stone gable copings, while the tower has a lead roof. The building is in a Free Baroque style and consists of one storey with a total of 25 bays.

The central symmetrical 9-bay block includes a three-stage tower above the porch, with open-arched and gabled end porches. These porches have alternate-block jambs and brick-and-stone keyed arches, along with quoins, eaves, gable bands, and ball finials. The tower features a three-light window on the ground floor and round-headed openings in the upper two stages, with a clock in the third stage framed by a keyed surround. Stone garlands are located under the dentilled eaves cornice, and the parapet is adorned with pilasters and shaped coping. The ogee-hipped roof is topped with a tall spike finial.

Windows between the porches have stone mullions and round heads. The left wing has nine bays, with gables over the end bay and the central door, and keyed elliptical heads on the wood mullioned-and-transomed windows. The right wing has seven bays, featuring an elliptical head over the door in the end bay, and keyed round-headed windows with a door inserted in the fourth bay.

Inside, there is an arcaded ticket office with fat, banded Ionic pilasters. The train shed has a rear panelled brick wall and cast iron Ionic columns on octagonal plinths, with girders that support a glazed roof, featuring pierced spandrels containing shields.