North Road Railway Station (Now Railway Museum)
North Road Railway Station (Now Railway Museum), Station Road, Darlington
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Overview
- 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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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1322962
- Date first listed:
- 28-Apr-1952
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 06-Sept-1977
- List Entry Name:
- North Road Railway Station (Now Railway Museum)
- Statutory Address 1:
- North Road Railway Station (Now Railway Museum), Station Road, Darlington
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:
- 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
Details
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
NZ 2815
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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
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- 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
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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