Station Cottages

Six railway cottages, dating from circa 1846, were designed by G T Andrews for George Hudson’s Great North of England Railway. Constructed of sandstone rubble with ashlar dressings and a Welsh slate roof, they are built in a Jacobethan style. The cottages are two storeys high with a rear outshut and six bays. Single-storey lateral buttresses are located at each end. The windows are mullioned casements; the ground floor windows have three lights with relieving arches, while the first-floor windows, located beneath gables with bargeboards and apex pendants, have two lights. Board doors are set within quoined triangular-headed surrounds. Quoined surrounds also feature on the mullion windows. Paired tall ashlar corniced stacks are positioned between bays one and two, three and four, and five and six. The cottages are part of a significant group of surviving railway buildings.