Former Cowton Railway Station

The Former Cowton Railway Station, built in 1841 by Benjamin Green for the Great North of England Railway, is a railway station and stationmaster's house. It features plum-coloured stock brick with sandstone dressings and a Welsh slate roof, designed in an H-shaped plan and Jacobethan style.

The west (entrance) elevation is symmetrical, with a one-storey and attic house that projects forward on the left, along with an additional room that also projects forward and has a gabled roof at right angles. The elevation includes single-light casement windows on either side, with drip moulds above. The central section has a four-centred porch with a corbelled parapet and an original plank door, flanked by two stone mullioned windows with drip moulds and a corbel table above. The right-hand gable features two-light windows below and a single-light window above, all with similar detailing. The gables have moulded coping, double kneelers, and finials, though some details are damaged. There are two stacks at the junction of the roofs, one rebuilt and one partly dismantled.

The south elevation has two two-light windows with a continuous drip. The east (track) elevation is asymmetrical, featuring gables with stepped three-light mullioned windows with drips and a single-light window above. This elevation also has a recessed centre with a three-bay verandah supported by quatrefoil section cast-iron columns. The wooden arcade has decorated spandrels and pendants, a slate roof, and a corbel table above. Above the verandah is a small gable with a plain roundel, presumably intended for a clock.

The interior remains almost intact, including both public rooms and the house. It features booking office fittings, most of the joinery, and five original fireplaces, four of which have Gothic surrounds. This station is the oldest surviving example of Benjamin Green's stations and the only remaining wayside station of the Great Northern Railway.