Railway Cottages
RAILWAY COTTAGES, 7, 8 AND 9, STRATHMORE COURT
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1282759
- Date first listed:
- 22-Feb-1973
- List Entry Name:
- Railway Cottages
- Statutory Address:
- RAILWAY COTTAGES, 7, 8 AND 9, STRATHMORE COURT
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1282759
- Date first listed:
- 22-Feb-1973
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 28-Nov-1994
- List Entry Name:
- Railway Cottages
- Statutory Address 1:
- RAILWAY COTTAGES, 7, 8 AND 9, STRATHMORE COURT
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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:
- RAILWAY COTTAGES, 7, 8 AND 9, STRATHMORE COURT
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- County Durham (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Barnard Castle
- National Grid Reference:
- NZ 05254 16989
Details
BARNARD CASTLE
NZ0516NW STRATHMORE COURT 770-1/4/176 (West side) 22/02/73 Nos.7, 8 AND 9 Railway Cottages (Formerly Listed as: MONTALBO ROAD Railway Cottages)
GV II
Formerly known as: Nos.48, 49 AND 50 Railway Cottages MONTALBO ROAD. Railway station, later goods station, now 3 houses. 1856. For Darlington and Barnard Castle Railway Company. c1861 became goods station when South Durham and Lancashire Union Railway Company opened new station. Portico removed to Valley Gardens, Saltburn in 1863 (Hoole) and incorporated in the Albert Memorial. Pecked and margined ashlar with ashlar plinth, pecked and margined quoins, and ashlar dressings. Roof Welsh slate with stone gable copings, grey ridge tiles and stone and ashlar chimneys; some Lakeland slate patching to No.9. Classical style. EXTERIOR: one storey; 6-window range, with set-back blank end bays. Right house has rear wing. Rear extension to right part of building possibly represents original canopy to road. West elevation formerly to railway lines has portico removed. Central C20 glazed door and overlight in architrave with scroll brackets to large cornice. Renewed 4-pane sashes in aedicules with pediments on scroll brackets. Low-pitched hipped roof has 2 tall corniced chimneys behind ridge and one at eaves at each end; tall octagonal yellow pots have castellated vents. Right return has flat stone lintels to half-glazed door and renewed sashes with glazing bars. Rear elevation has late C20 doors and windows. South wing has gable on moulded kneelers. Long rear outshut under catslide roof. Prominent projecting roof lights on rear slope: small to No.8, and 2 large ones to No.9. INTERIOR: not inspected. Portico removed to Valley Gardens, Saltburn, in 1863 and incorporated into the Albert Memorial (Hoole). (Tomlinson WW: North Eastern Railway (3rd edition): Newton Abbott: 1987-: 555; Hoole K: Railway Stations of the North East: Newton Abbot: 1985-: 152; A Regional History of the Railways of Great Britain: Hoole K: The North East: Newton Abbott: 1965-: 133-7).
Listing NGR: NZ0525416989
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 388805
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Hoole, K, Railway Stations of the North East, (1985), 152
Tomlinson, W W, History of the North Eastern Railway, (1967), 555
Hoole, K, A Regional History of The Railways of Great Britain in The North East, (1965), 133-7
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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