Thorp Arch Station House

SE44NW THORP ARCH LS23

2/105 Thorp Arch Station House

GV II

Railway station and attached house, now private dwelling. Mid-late C19 for the North-Eastern Railway Company, altered C20. Coursed, squared magnesian limestone with gritstone dressings; Welsh slate roof. Elongated 1-storey range with ticket office in cross-wing on left of waiting rooms, wing to rear right and attached 2-storey, T-shaped station house at right end. In Gothic Revival style. Ticket office to left has a transomed window of 3 trefoil- headed lights beneath relieving arch and gable with trefoil, kneelers and ashlar gable copings; against its left return is a lean-to with pointed archway. Waiting rooms, set back on right beneath a 4-bay canopy on wooden posts with cusped braces, have three boarded doors in quoined and shouldered openings and 3 transomed, trefoil-headed 2-light windows; 2 tall corniced stone ridge stacks. Canopy overlaps side wing of house on right and stops against its gabled front projection which has a 1-storey bay window beneath C20 casement in plain chamfered opening; kneelers and ashlar gable copings; dentilled yellow-brick stacks to main ridge and to eaves on left. Rear: pointed arch on right of ticket office springs from an offset buttress; 1- storey range has trefoil-headed 2-light windows; attic window to gable of wing on left. House has blind dormers on each return. Included for group value.

Listing NGR: SE4387746499