Durham Railway Station West Range and Canopy
DURHAM RAILWAY STATION WEST RANGE AND CANOPY, STATION APPROACH
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1121344
- Date first listed:
- 10-Mar-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Durham Railway Station West Range and Canopy
- Statutory Address:
- DURHAM RAILWAY STATION WEST RANGE AND CANOPY, STATION APPROACH
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1121344
- Date first listed:
- 10-Mar-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Durham Railway Station West Range and Canopy
- Statutory Address 1:
- DURHAM RAILWAY STATION WEST RANGE AND CANOPY, STATION APPROACH
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- DURHAM RAILWAY STATION WEST RANGE AND CANOPY, STATION APPROACH
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- County Durham (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- City of Durham
- National Grid Reference:
- NZ 26990 42849
Details
DURHAM AND FRAMWELLGATE STATION APPROACH NZ 24 SE and NZ 2742 NW (North end, off)
4 and 9/463 Durham Railway Station west range and canopy
GV II
Passenger building and canopy. Circa 1857. Probably by G.T. Andrews for North Eastern Railway Company. Coursed squared sandstone with ashlar dressings; Welsh slate roof with stone gable copings. Main building H-plan with extensions, linked by C20 insertion to lavatory block at right. One storey, 8 bays and one- storey, one-bay block at right. Main part has 3 mullioned-and-transomed 6-light windows in centre flanked by gabled bays containing paired doors, with 2-paned overlights at left and paired windows at right, under label moulds; further set- back one-bay sections obscured at left and with one window at right. Steeply- pitched roof has sloped coping on kneelers; truncated octagonal chimneys.
Lavatory block of one storey, one wide bay with 5 high square ventilators under gable.
Canopy: 2 ridges resting on cast iron Gothic beams and octagonal columns with leaf capitals. Doors to platform are ledged and boarded.
Listing NGR: NZ2699042849
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 110521
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
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