Description

SE44NW THORP ARCH
LS23

2/105 Thorp Arch Station
House

GV II

Railway station and attached house, now private dwelling. Mid-late C19 for
the North-Eastern Railway Company, altered C20. Coursed, squared magnesian
limestone with gritstone dressings; Welsh slate roof. Elongated 1-storey
range with ticket office in cross-wing on left of waiting rooms, wing to rear
right and attached 2-storey, T-shaped station house at right end. In Gothic
Revival style. Ticket office to left has a transomed window of 3 trefoil-
headed lights beneath relieving arch and gable with trefoil, kneelers and
ashlar gable copings; against its left return is a lean-to with pointed
archway. Waiting rooms, set back on right beneath a 4-bay canopy on wooden
posts with cusped braces, have three boarded doors in quoined and shouldered
openings and 3 transomed, trefoil-headed 2-light windows; 2 tall corniced
stone ridge stacks. Canopy overlaps side wing of house on right and stops
against its gabled front projection which has a 1-storey bay window beneath
C20 casement in plain chamfered opening; kneelers and ashlar gable copings;
dentilled yellow-brick stacks to main ridge and to eaves on left. Rear:
pointed arch on right of ticket office springs from an offset buttress; 1-
storey range has trefoil-headed 2-light windows; attic window to gable of
wing on left. House has blind dormers on each return.
Included for group value.

Listing NGR: SE4387746499

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26599927

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