Description

HALTWHISTLE STATION ROAD NY 76 SW (East side) 16/30 Ticket office and 22.8.73 waiting room, west of Station House GV II

Waiting room and former ticket office (the latter now a Tourist Information Centre). 1838, probably by Benjamin Green for the Newcastle and Carlisle Railway Company. Dressed stone, Welsh slate roof and ashlar chimney stack. L-plan: main block with wing on right rear. Tudor style. Single storey. 4-bay front has low plinth and quoins. Enlarged C20 doorway at left; 6-panel door at right in chamfered surround under hoodmould. C19 circular clock face in wall beside right doorway. Two 2-light chamfered-mullioned windows between doorways with replaced sashes under hoodmoulds. Moulded stone gutter brackets. Roof has coped gables with square blocks at apexes and shaped kneelers. Central octagonal-plan ridge stack with moulded top band. 2-bay rear wing has similar fenestration and details. Included for group value.

(G. Whittle, The Newcastle and Carlisle Railway, 1979).

Listing NGR: NY7045963816

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