Description

DURHAM AND FRAMWELLGATE STATION APPROACH
NZ 24 SE and NZ 2742 NW (North end, off)

4 and 9/463 Durham Railway Station
west range and canopy

GV II

Passenger building and canopy. Circa 1857. Probably by G.T. Andrews for North
Eastern Railway Company. Coursed squared sandstone with ashlar dressings; Welsh
slate roof with stone gable copings. Main building H-plan with extensions,
linked by C20 insertion to lavatory block at right. One storey, 8 bays and one-
storey, one-bay block at right. Main part has 3 mullioned-and-transomed 6-light
windows in centre flanked by gabled bays containing paired doors, with 2-paned
overlights at left and paired windows at right, under label moulds; further set-
back one-bay sections obscured at left and with one window at right. Steeply-
pitched roof has sloped coping on kneelers; truncated octagonal chimneys.

Lavatory block of one storey, one wide bay with 5 high square ventilators under
gable.

Canopy: 2 ridges resting on cast iron Gothic beams and octagonal columns with
leaf capitals. Doors to platform are ledged and boarded.

Listing NGR: NZ2699042849

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26414529

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Recommended Books

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  Essex: Buildings of England Series (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Development and Design of Heritage Sensitive Sites: Strategies for Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas
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  Cambridgeshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Staffordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Gloucestershire 2: The Vale and The Forest of Dean: Vale and Forest of Dean Pt. 2 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  For the Record