Latitude: 55.0401 / 55°2'24"N
Longitude: -1.4428 / 1°26'33"W
OS Eastings: 435708
OS Northings: 571868
OS Grid: NZ357718
Mapcode National: GBR LBC5.F2
Mapcode Global: WHD4K.TL42
Plus Code: 9C7W2HR4+2V
Entry Name: Whitley Bay Station Main Building with Train Shed
Listing Date: 19 February 1986
Grade: II
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1355007
English Heritage Legacy ID: 303433
ID on this website: 101355007
Location: Whitley Bay, North Tyneside, Tyne and Wear, NE26
County: North Tyneside
Electoral Ward/Division: Whitley Bay
Parish: Non Civil Parish
Built-Up Area: Whitley Bay
Traditional County: Northumberland
Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Tyne and Wear
Church of England Parish: Tynemouth St Paul, Cullercoats
Church of England Diocese: Newcastle
Tagged with: Architectural structure
WHITLEY BAY STATION ROAD NZ 37 SE 5/184 Whitley Bay Station: main building with train shed. II Railway station passenger building and train shed. Dated 1910 on tower. For North Eastern Railway Co; engineer William Bell. Brick with ashlar quoins and dressings and ashlar-coped plinth; Welsh slate roof with glass lights and stone gable copings; lead tower roof. Free Baroque style. One storey, 25 bays in all. Ventral symmetrical 9-bay block has 3-stage tower over porch; and end porches, all open-arched and gabled, with alternate-block jambs and brick-and-stone keyed arches; quoins, eaves and gable bands, and ball finials to end porches. Tower has 3-light ground floor window, round-headed openings in 2 upper stages; clock in third stage with keyed surround. Stone garlands under dentilled eaves cornice; parapet with pilasters and shaped coping. Ogee-hipped roof with tall spike finial. Windows between porches have stone mullions and round heads. 9-bay left wing has gables over end bay and over central door, and keyed elliptical heads to wood mullioned-and-transomed windows; 7-bay right wing has elliptical head to door, in end bay, and keyed round-headed windows with door inserted in fourth bay. Interior shows arcaded ticket office with fat, banded Ionic pilasters. Train shed: rear panelled brick wall and cast iron Ionic columns on octagonal plinths; girders with pierced spandrels containing shields support glazed roof.
Listing NGR: NZ3570871868
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