North Road Railway Station (Now Railway Museum)

North Road Railway Station (Now Railway Museum), Station Road, Darlington

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1322962
Date first listed:: 28-Apr-1952
List Entry Name:: North Road Railway Station (Now Railway Museum)
Statutory Address:: North Road Railway Station (Now Railway Museum), Station Road, Darlington

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1322962
Date first listed:: 28-Apr-1952
Date of most recent amendment:: 06-Sep-1977
List Entry Name:: North Road Railway Station (Now Railway Museum)
Statutory Address 1:: North Road Railway Station (Now Railway Museum), Station Road, Darlington

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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.

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Location

Statutory Address:: North Road Railway Station (Now Railway Museum), Station Road, Darlington

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

District:: Darlington (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Non Civil Parish
National Grid Reference:: NZ 28910 15712

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This list entry was subject to a Minor Enhancement on 24 January 2023 to amend the description, add reference to selcted sources and reformat the text to current standards

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STATION ROAD North Road Railway Station (Now Railway Museum) (Formerly listed under North Read)

28.4.52.

GV II* Railway station, now museum. Opened 1842, replacing the 1833 passenger station that was sited just to the east, by John Harris for the Stockton & Darlington Railway, side wings added 1850s.

Long front building having two storey, six window centre with a loggia whose seven cast iron columns support a bracketed timber cornice. Long, single-storey side wings of differing lenth and irregular fenestration. Walls now roughcast. Slated roofs with eaves soffits and chimney stacks of conjoined hexagonal ashlar shafts at ends of centre block; similar paired or single shafts to wings. Plain, timber-roofed train shed at rear in two unequal spans with row of cast iron columns. Short flanking sheds with cast iron supports to lean-to roofs against the front building. Good example of early, straight forward railway station. Now in use as a railway museum.

Graded for its association with the Stockton & Darlington Railway, opened 1825, which was highly influential both nationally and internationally for the development of railways

Listing NGR: NZ2891015712

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Legacy System number:: 110718
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Fawcett, Bill, A History of North Eastern Railway Architecture: Volume 1: The Pioneers, (2001), 116

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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.