Latitude: 54.7263 / 54°43'34"N
Longitude: -1.8844 / 1°53'3"W
OS Eastings: 407542
OS Northings: 536823
OS Grid: NZ075368
Mapcode National: GBR HF8S.TJ
Mapcode Global: WHC4S.0GYK
Plus Code: 9C6WP4G8+G6
Entry Name: Former Railway Station
Listing Date: 5 June 1987
Grade: II
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1276642
English Heritage Legacy ID: 408828
ID on this website: 101276642
Location: Wolsingham, County Durham, DL13
County: County Durham
Civil Parish: Wolsingham
Built-Up Area: Wolsingham
Traditional County: Durham
Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): County Durham
Church of England Parish: Wolsingham
Church of England Diocese: Durham
Tagged with: Architectural structure
WOLSINGHAM WEAR BANK
NZ 03 NE (East side, off)
Wolsingham
24/406
Former railway
station
II
Railway station, now house. Dated 1847; for Wear Valley branch of Stockton and
Darlington Railway. Yellow brick with plinth and ashlar dressings; stone-flagged
roof with stone gable copings. H-plan. Gothic style. Main building 2 storeys,
3 bays, the central wide and the outer gabled. Central boarded door, with
elaborate hinges and handle, in Tudor-arched surround with integral hood-mould.
Square-headed surrounds in similar style to narrow flanking sashes, 2 blind
windows above containing blank high-relief stone shields, and central half-
dormer with slit in gable peak. Projecting outer bays contain windows in similar
style,of 2 or 3 lights,and a canted bay at right on ground floor with
battlemented stone-flagged roof. All windows stone-mullioned with sloping sills.
Large curved kneelers support moulded gable coping; ball finials on kneelers and
outer gables. Steeply-pitched roof has polygonal brick chimneys on ashlar
plinths in groups of 2 on main ridge and 3 on end ridges. Rear has platform
canopy linking outer gables.
Small one-storey, 2-bay building at right in similar style with L-plan completed
by linking wall to main building; Tudor-arched door in link, door and window in
gable to front at left. Roll-moulded coping on link wall.
Interior: many original fittings, with waiting-room benches, Gothic chimney-
pieces, and main first-floor board-room with stucco cornice.
Listing NGR: NZ0754236823
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