Description

MORPETH COOPIES LANE NZ 2085

25/224 Morpeth Station

GV II

British Rail Station. 1847 by John Green for the York, Newcastle and Berwick Railway. bm canopies added c.1890 (cf. Whittingham Station and Callaly Castle Stables). Dressed stone with ashlar dressings. Welsh slate roof. Tudor style. 2-storey, U-plan centre section and single-storey wings.

Centre section: recessed middle with Tudor-arched doorway to left and platform access to right; 2-light windows above in gabled half-dormers. Projecting, cross-gabled outer bays. To right: 3 large pointed-arched windows on ground floor and canted oriel above. To left: 3-light mullioned windows. Steeply- pitched gabled roof with ridged coping, kneelers with ball finials, and low octagonal ridge stacks.

Similar detail to wings.

Platform side has glazed canopies with elaborate iron work, including stars of David, in the spandrels. Platform extension to east has similar canopy on cast- iron columns.

Ceramic railway map of c.1910, attached to wall.

Railway Stations of the North East: Hoole: 1985. David and Charles.

Listing NGR: NZ2035185364

External Links

• Morpeth railway station at Wikipedia
• Wikidata Q2534198

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  Central Leinster: Kildare, Laois and Offaly (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of Ireland)
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  This Old House: Restoring, Rehabilitating, and Renovating an Older House
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  Hampshire: South (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Hampshire: Winchester and the North (The Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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