Station Master's House and Offices, with Stone Platform to Front is a Grade II listed building in the Cumberland local planning authority area, England. Private house, offices. 1 related planning application.
Station Master's House and Offices, with Stone Platform to Front
- WRENN ID
- plain-postern-dale
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cumberland
- Constituency
- Carlisle MP: Ms Julie Minns (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Type
- Private house, offices
- Address
- Station Master's House and Offices, with Stone Platform to Front, Wetheral, CA4 8JP
- OS grid reference
- NY 467 546
- Coordinates
- 54.88387, -2.83119
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Station Master's House and offices, which includes a stone platform at the front, is a private house that was formerly a ticket office, clerk's office, waiting rooms, and the station master's residence. It was built between 1835 and 1838, likely by Benjamin Green for the Newcastle & Carlisle Railway, with additions made in the 1880s for the North Eastern Railway. The building features calciferous sandstone ashlar walls and a slate roof, complete with ashlar chimney stacks. Originally a single-storey structure, an additional storey was added in the 1880s, designed to match the original style, which is Tudor.
The front elevation facing the platform has a central bay that projects for the clerk's office, topped with a hipped roof. It includes a chamfered plinth course and pilaster strips at the corners. The central window is a mullioned design with two lights and a hood mould, flanked by two square-headed lancet windows, all with chamfered surrounds. An extension with wooden-plank walls was added in the 1880s to fill the left corner, featuring a wire grille window for issuing tickets. To the left of this extension is part of a cast-iron glass platform canopy that was erected in the 1860s.
To the right of the clerk's office is the original waiting room, which has two entrance doors with chamfered surrounds and hood moulds, and a similar window that is now boarded over. The roof has been removed, leaving only the front and one side wall. Behind the waiting room is the station master's house, rebuilt in the 1880s using similar stone and details, featuring two-pane sash windows. The original low-level platform remains outside these buildings but is now only used for access to Corby Bridge. The station closed in 1969 and reopened in 1982, but these buildings are no longer used by British Rail. The site is listed partly for its group value with the nearby Corby Bridge.
Local climate
Station Master's House and Offices, with Stone Platform to Front sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,090 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 87% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 79% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 54 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 95% of listed buildings. Of these, 29 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.
Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.
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- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
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