Description

STANHOPE MELLBUTTS BANK
NZ 02 36 (South side)
Frosterley

40/241 Station House

GV II
Railway station and station-master's house. Dated 1847; for Wear Valley line
of Stockton and Darlington railway. Painted brick with ashlar-coped plinth
and dressings; roof of renewed stone slates, with brick and ashlar chimneys.
One storey, 3 bays, the central projecting. Boarded door in central bay has
elaborate iron hinges and handle; flat-Tudor-archedoverlight; tall stone
surround with alternate-block jambs. Tall 2-light stone-mullioned window in
half-dormer above under tall gable with stone shield bearing date. Flanking
bays have 3-light windows and 2-light half dormers in similar style. All
gables barge-boarded. Steeply-pitched roof has 2 ridge chimneys with tall
polygonal brick stacks on coped plinths. Right return to former platform has
canted bay with sloping stone-flagged roof.

Listing NGR: NZ0241436898

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26525285

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  Essex: Buildings of England Series (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Sussex: East with Brighton and Hove (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Pioneers of Modern Design: From William Morris to Walter Gropius (Penguin Art & Architecture)
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  Pevsner's Architectural Glossary (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Introductions)
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  Listed Buildings and Other Heritage Assets
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  Northamptonshire: Buildings of England Series (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)