Description

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

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26566140

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Recommended Books

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  Listed Buildings and Other Heritage Assets
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  Cork: City and County (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of Ireland)
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  [(Bedfordshire, Huntingdon and Peterborough)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1968)
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  Sussex: West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  London 3: North West: North West v. 3 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Staffordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)