Station House

UCKERBY SCORTON-UCKERBY ROAD NZ 20 SW (west side)

5/133 Station House 8/7/86

GV II

Scorton station, now house. c1846. By G T Andrews for George Hudson's Great North of England Railway. Rubble brought to course with ashlar dressings, Welsh slate roofs. Jacobethan style. T-shaped plan, 1 and 2 storeys, 1:1:1 bays, second and third bays of 2 storeys, the second gable- end to the railway line, projecting forward slightly, and projecting back as the spine of the T, the third with a contemporary single-storey rear outshut. Quoins. Elevation to former railway line: windows have double- chamfered quoined surrounds. Left bay: C20 garage door and railway clock by Darling and Wood of York. Second bay: on ground floor, 2-bay arcade with flanking short stepped buttresses, segmental-pointed arches with a central octagonal pier, its capital bearing a corbel. Recessed behind it, 2-light window and, to right, board door in Tudor-arched surround. Similar doorways to left and right returns of recess, that to right blocked. Above arcade, 2-light first-floor window with relieving arch. To gable, bargeboards decorated with Perpendicular-style tracery, pendants in angles. Third bay: ground-floor 3-light window; 2-light first-floor window. Right return: matching bargeboards to gable, also to verge of rear lean-to roof. Tall brick stacks flanking central bay. Space between platforms now infilled in front of station to form garden. At rear of house, a walled yard gave privacy to the house and its outbuildings from the Station Yard (qv).

Listing NGR: NZ2498401443