DURHAM RAILWAY STATION FRONT RANGE

DURHAM RAILWAY STATION FRONT RANGE, STATION APPROACH (NORTH END)

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1161508
Date first listed:: 10-Mar-1988
List Entry Name:: DURHAM RAILWAY STATION FRONT RANGE
Statutory Address:: DURHAM RAILWAY STATION FRONT RANGE, STATION APPROACH (NORTH END)

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1161508
Date first listed:: 10-Mar-1988
List Entry Name:: DURHAM RAILWAY STATION FRONT RANGE
Statutory Address 1:: DURHAM RAILWAY STATION FRONT RANGE, STATION APPROACH (NORTH END)

This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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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.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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.

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Location

Statutory Address:: DURHAM RAILWAY STATION FRONT RANGE, STATION APPROACH (NORTH END)

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 26996 42763

Details

DURHAM AND FRAMWELLGATE STATION APPROACH NZ 24 SE and NZ 2742 NW (North end)

4 and 9/462 Durham Railway Station front range

GV II

Railway station. 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 block H-plan; extension to left, including former water tower; short extension to right. Tudor Gothic style.

Main block: 2 storeys, 5 bays; 3-bay central portico has double-chamfered Tudor arches on plinth, with steps up to the central arch; diagonal buttresses and battlemented parapet. Renewed doors at centre and right have overlights, the right stone-mullioned over shouldered door; cross window in left bay. Stone mullions and transoms to windows of 1 and 2 lights above. Gabled end bays contain wide loading door at left and cross window at right on ground floor; stone cross windows above; label moulds to windows in gabled bays. Steeply-pitched roof of fishscale pattern; sloped copings resting on moulded kneelers; truncated polygonal chimneys. Left extension has one-storey 3-bay link (with casements and steeply- pitched roof) to battlemented tower on blocked arcade. Small outbuilding to left of main block has shouldered surround to door in right return; sloped coping to wall. One-storey one-bay right extension in similar style.

Listing NGR: NZ2699642763

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Legacy System number:: 110520
Legacy System:: LBS

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This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.