Former Railway Station
FORMER RAILWAY STATION, WEAR BANK
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1276642
- Date first listed:
- 05-Jun-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Former Railway Station
- Statutory Address:
- FORMER RAILWAY STATION, WEAR BANK
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1276642
- Date first listed:
- 05-Jun-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Former Railway Station
- Statutory Address 1:
- FORMER RAILWAY STATION, WEAR BANK
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:
- FORMER RAILWAY STATION, WEAR BANK
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- County Durham (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Wolsingham
- National Grid Reference:
- NZ 07542 36823
Details
WOLSINGHAM WEAR BANK NZ 03 NE (East side, off) Wolsingham 24/406 Former railway station II Railway station, now house. Dated 1847; for Wear Valley branch of Stockton and Darlington Railway. Yellow brick with plinth and ashlar dressings; stone-flagged roof with stone gable copings. H-plan. Gothic style. Main building 2 storeys, 3 bays, the central wide and the outer gabled. Central boarded door, with elaborate hinges and handle, in Tudor-arched surround with integral hood-mould. Square-headed surrounds in similar style to narrow flanking sashes, 2 blind windows above containing blank high-relief stone shields, and central half- dormer with slit in gable peak. Projecting outer bays contain windows in similar style,of 2 or 3 lights,and a canted bay at right on ground floor with battlemented stone-flagged roof. All windows stone-mullioned with sloping sills. Large curved kneelers support moulded gable coping; ball finials on kneelers and outer gables. Steeply-pitched roof has polygonal brick chimneys on ashlar plinths in groups of 2 on main ridge and 3 on end ridges. Rear has platform canopy linking outer gables.
Small one-storey, 2-bay building at right in similar style with L-plan completed by linking wall to main building; Tudor-arched door in link, door and window in gable to front at left. Roll-moulded coping on link wall.
Interior: many original fittings, with waiting-room benches, Gothic chimney- pieces, and main first-floor board-room with stucco cornice.
Listing NGR: NZ0754236823
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 408828
- 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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