Station House

Station House is a station master’s house, dating to circa 1846, and designed by G T Andrews for George Hudson's Great North of England Railway. It is constructed of sandstone rubble with ashlar dressings and has a Welsh slate roof, arranged in an L-shaped plan. The house is two storeys high, with a 1:1:1 bay arrangement, and includes a rear wing to the left. Features include a plinth, quoins, a first-floor string course, and a central gabled bay which slightly projects. The central bay contains a boarded door within a quoined, triangular-headed surround, featuring sunk spandrels, a hood-mould stepped up to the string, and a carving of a parchment scroll. Mullion windows, of three lights on the ground floor and two lights on the first floor, are set within quoined surrounds; the central bay's window has a relieving arch. Decorative bargeboards and an apex finial are present on the gable of the first bay, while the central gable has an octagonal crenellated finial, with further finials to the left and right ends. A square and octagonal stack is located between the second and third bays, and also at the junction of the main house with the rear wing. The interior retains original doors, window shutters, fireplaces, and a staircase. It is one of the significant surviving buildings associated with the railway.