Bullnose Building, former Coal Manager's office and house

Coal manager's office and house, built in 1876 for the North Eastern Railway as part of a new Goods Station complex. The building was envisaged by Thomas Prosser, NER Architect, and designed by Benjamin Burleigh, NER Architect, following Prosser's resignation in 1874 due to ill health.

The structure is constructed of orange brick with brick and ashlar stone dressings and slate roofs. Built on a triangular site, it comprises two storeys with a distinctive rounded outer east corner and an angled return on the northern side of the entrance to the former Goods Station, now the National Railway Museum.

The layout is divided between the office and house functions. The office portion features a D-shaped plan at its east end. An entrance and stair hall separate the D-shaped east-end rooms from other spaces. On the ground floor, a long corridor runs between the entrance and stair hall and the yard to the west, with rooms positioned to each side. On the first floor, the D-shaped room (former manager's office) is separated from the large clerks' office by the stair landing and a lobby on the north side which interconnects between the two rooms. The L-shaped house portion is attached to the west gable wall of the office, facing onto Leeman Road. It originally had a central doorway and staircase, now removed. A sub-divided angled yard in the south-west corner is enclosed by a high boundary wall.

The building is constructed of orange brick in English garden wall bond (3:1) with a brick plinth and chevron-moulded eaves cornice, save for the rounded east corner where the brick eaves cornice is stepped and, together with the heads of the three first-floor windows, appears to have been rebuilt. The gable walls of both office and house have shaped ashlar kneelers and ashlar coping stones. Chimney stacks are of brick with chevron-moulded cornices. Windows throughout have segmental-arched heads of gauged bricks and stone sills, with two-over-two pane horned sashes and one-over-one pane horned sashes for narrower WC windows.

The front elevation facing north onto Leeman Road displays the office, which is slightly taller than the house, with three bays facing directly onto the road. The main entrance doorway occupies the first ground-floor bay. It has an arched head with a slightly projecting brick and ashlar door hood with a moulded stone cornice and giant keystone. The panelled double doors and three-light segmental-arched overlight are recessed with an in-built boot scraper in the right-hand reveal. The second and third bays contain windows, with three windows on the first floor. The house is slightly recessed and also of three bays. Its central doorway has a round head of gauged bricks with a recessed four-panelled door and plain overlight, flanked by a window to each side, with three windows on the first floor.

The rounded east corner displays three windows on both floors.

The four-bay south-east elevation of the office faces onto the entrance to the former Goods Station. A segmental-arched doorway in the second bay contains modern double doors and an overlight. The first and third bays have windows; the fourth bay has a window replacing a doorway. Between the first window and door is a square timber sign believed to date from the 1940s, restored by the National Railway Museum in 2012. It is painted orange with white lettering reading "SPEED / LIMIT / WITHIN THIS YARD / 15 M.P.H." The first, second and third bays on the first floor have windows, and the fourth bay has narrower paired windows. At the left-hand end is a high brick boundary wall with a brick plinth and ashlar coping stones. The bricks course through from the brickwork of the ground floor of the building. The wall runs in line with the office façade before curving slightly and returning in line with the west wall of the house. A segmental-arched doorway in the wall stands to the immediate left of the office building; on its left-hand side is one of the separately listed Grade II gate piers. Two further segmental-arched doorways lie to the left of the gate pier. The return part of the wall, running north-south, is blind.

Internally, the office main entrance doorway opens into a small lobby with a panelled and glazed inner screen with central half-glazed and panelled double doors. These lead into a narrow entrance and stair hall. An open-well timber staircase rises to the rear, featuring turned balusters and newel post with a swept moulded handrail, curtail step, and decorative tread ends. The majority of doors are four-panelled with moulded timber architraves. Windows likewise have moulded timber architraves; the original windows in the D-shaped end rooms have architraves down to the floor with panelled aprons beneath the window frames. Both end rooms have picture rails, and the first-floor room retains its painted timber and tiled fireplace and fender with a brass rail. Although chimney breasts and stone hearths remain, no other fireplaces are in-situ. On the ground floor, the two rooms on the south side have been opened up, though the original layout remains evident. On the first floor, the northern side of the clerks' office has been partitioned off with modern board partitions.

The house has similar four-panelled doors with moulded timber architraves and moulded timber architraves to windows. The staircase has been removed. On the ground floor, the front and rear rooms on the west side have been opened up, though the original layout remains clear. The first floor of the house was not inspected, but plans show it retains three rooms.