Former Gas House

The former gas house, built around 1846, was designed by G T Andrews for George Hudson's Great North of England Railway. It is constructed of sandstone rubble with ashlar dressings and features a Welsh slate roof. The building is single storey and consists of three bays with quoins. It has three tall round-arched openings with quoined edges and ashlar voussoirs, creating the appearance of an arcade. The central opening has board doors, while the outer openings are double-arched, with glazing in the tympana above recessed rubble blocking. The hipped roof includes a raised louvred ventilator along the apex. Inside, there are two round-arched furnaces made of burnt bricks on the left side. This gas house served only the station complex, as it is located on the opposite side of the river from Richmond's gasworks. The chimney has been demolished, and the building was in a derelict state at the time of the last survey. It is part of an important group of surviving railway buildings.