Station Master'S House And Offices, With Stone Platform To Front

WETHERAL WETHERAL NY 4654

14/178 Station Master's House and offices, with stone platform to front

G.V. II

Private house, formerly ticket office - clerk's office - waiting rooms and station master's house. 1835-38, probably by Benjamin Green for the Newcastle & Carlisle Railway, with 1880's additions for North Eastern Railway. Calciferous sandstone ashlar walls and slate roof, with ashlar chimney stacks. Originally all single storeyed but house had additional storey added in 1880's, in keeping with the original. Tudor style. Platform elevation has projecting central bay for clerk's office with hipped roof: chamfered plinth course, pilaster strips at angles: central mullioned window of 2 lights and hood mould with chamfered surrounds, flanked by 2 lancets with square-heads and.chamfered surrounds. Wooden-plank walled extension, filling left corner angle, built in 1880's, has wire grille window for issuing tickets. Adjoining this to the left is part of the cast-iron glass platform canopy, erected in the 1860's. To right of clerk's office is the original waiting room, with 2 entrance doors, chamfered surrounds and hood moulds and similar window, now boarded over, roof removed and only the front and one side wall remaining. Behind is the stationmaster's house, rebuilt in 1880's, in similar stone of similar details to the other buildings with 2-pane sash windows. Original low-level platform retained outside of these buildings, but now only used as access to Corby Bridge. Station closed 1969 (re-opened 1982) but none of these buildings now used by British Rail. Listed partly for G.V. with the nearby Corby Bridge.

Listing NGR: NY4677454662