The Old Ticket Office

The Old Ticket Office is a railway building that has been converted into a private house. It was constructed around 1836 for the Whitby to Pickering Railway Company and has undergone some alterations and extensions since then. The building is made of vertically-tooled sandstone, which was once colour-washed, and sits on a deep plinth. It features a slate roof and a brick chimney stack.

Originally, the structure had a cruciform layout and is now a single storey with a three-bay front, where the left bay is recessed. The left bay contains a board door set in a round-arched doorway. The central bay features a tripartite window with a sliding sash in the middle, all beneath a segmental lintel. The right bay has a two-light, four-pane casement window beneath a glazed round head with vertical glazing bars, also in a round-arched opening. There is a blocked doorway on the left side of the projecting bays.

All openings have rounded arrises, and the windows are fitted with tooled stone sills. The building has overhanging eaves on its hipped roof, which has an apex stack. Both side returns have two round-arched, two-light windows, which can have casements or horizontal sliding sashes. This building likely served as the original Bank Top railway station, which operated a water-driven rope hoist to pull early horse-drawn coaches up the steep Incline nearby. It became privately owned around 1913.