Description

WETHERAL WETHERAL
NY 4654

14/178 Station Master's
House and offices,
with stone platform
to front

G.V. II

Private house, formerly ticket office - clerk's office - waiting rooms and
station master's house. 1835-38, probably by Benjamin Green for the Newcastle &
Carlisle Railway, with 1880's additions for North Eastern Railway. Calciferous
sandstone ashlar walls and slate roof, with ashlar chimney stacks. Originally
all single storeyed but house had additional storey added in 1880's, in keeping
with the original. Tudor style. Platform elevation has projecting central bay
for clerk's office with hipped roof: chamfered plinth course, pilaster strips
at angles: central mullioned window of 2 lights and hood mould with chamfered
surrounds, flanked by 2 lancets with square-heads and.chamfered surrounds.
Wooden-plank walled extension, filling left corner angle, built in 1880's, has
wire grille window for issuing tickets. Adjoining this to the left is part of
the cast-iron glass platform canopy, erected in the 1860's. To right of clerk's
office is the original waiting room, with 2 entrance doors, chamfered surrounds
and hood moulds and similar window, now boarded over, roof removed and only the
front and one side wall remaining. Behind is the stationmaster's house, rebuilt
in 1880's, in similar stone of similar details to the other buildings with
2-pane sash windows. Original low-level platform retained outside of these
buildings, but now only used as access to Corby Bridge. Station closed 1969
(re-opened 1982) but none of these buildings now used by British Rail. Listed
partly for G.V. with the nearby Corby Bridge.

Listing NGR: NY4677454662

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26621421

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