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Former Railway Station

A Grade II Listed Building in Wolsingham, County Durham

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Coordinates

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

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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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