The Station House
THE STATION HOUSE, RAILWAY TERRACE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1178477
- Date first listed:
- 27-Jul-1987
- List Entry Name:
- The Station House
- Statutory Address:
- THE STATION HOUSE, RAILWAY TERRACE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1178477
- Date first listed:
- 27-Jul-1987
- List Entry Name:
- The Station House
- Statutory Address 1:
- THE STATION HOUSE, RAILWAY TERRACE
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:
- THE STATION HOUSE, RAILWAY TERRACE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Northumberland (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Thirlwall
- National Grid Reference:
- NY 63552 66337
Details
THIRLWALL RAILWAY TERRACE NY 66 NW Gilsland 10/38 The Station House GV II
Former station-master's house and ticket office, now private house; c1836 with later C19 rear additions. Possibly by Benjamin Green for the Newcastle and Carlisle Railway Co. Squared stone in narrow courses; slate roof; stone and brick chimneys. Tudor style. Single storey plus attic, 3 bays. Central replaced door in chamfered surround. Segmental-arched ticket office window with original pierced iron grille to left. 2-light chamfered-mullioned windows under hoodmoulds in end bays; window at left retains paired 8-pane sashes. Large corbelled-out, gabled half-dormer above doorway. Dormer has 2-light window under hoodmould, blind chamfered loop above and coped gable with shaped footstones. Flanking unsympathetic mid C20 dormers. Steeply-pitched roof. Left end rebuilt brick stack. Right end chimney with 2 truncated octagonal-plan stacks. Replaced sashes in chamfered surrounds on right return. 2-storey later gabled wing and lean-to additions on right rear. Mid C20 link section to Ghyllbrae (qv) on left return is not of special interest. (G Whittle, The Newcastle and Carlisle Railway, 1979).
Listing NGR: NY6355266337
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 240844
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Whittle, G, The Newcastle and Carlisle Railway, (1979)
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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