Whitley Bay Station Main Building With Train Shed

WHITLEY BAY STATION ROAD NZ 37 SE 5/184 Whitley Bay Station: main building with train shed. II Railway station passenger building and train shed. Dated 1910 on tower. For North Eastern Railway Co; engineer William Bell. Brick with ashlar quoins and dressings and ashlar-coped plinth; Welsh slate roof with glass lights and stone gable copings; lead tower roof. Free Baroque style. One storey, 25 bays in all. Ventral symmetrical 9-bay block has 3-stage tower over porch; and end porches, all open-arched and gabled, with alternate-block jambs and brick-and-stone keyed arches; quoins, eaves and gable bands, and ball finials to end porches. Tower has 3-light ground floor window, round-headed openings in 2 upper stages; clock in third stage with keyed surround. Stone garlands under dentilled eaves cornice; parapet with pilasters and shaped coping. Ogee-hipped roof with tall spike finial. Windows between porches have stone mullions and round heads. 9-bay left wing has gables over end bay and over central door, and keyed elliptical heads to wood mullioned-and-transomed windows; 7-bay right wing has elliptical head to door, in end bay, and keyed round-headed windows with door inserted in fourth bay. Interior shows arcaded ticket office with fat, banded Ionic pilasters. Train shed: rear panelled brick wall and cast iron Ionic columns on octagonal plinths; girders with pierced spandrels containing shields support glazed roof.

Listing NGR: NZ3570871868