Description

THIRLWALL RAILWAY TERRACE NY 66 NW Gilsland 10/38 The Station House GV II

Former station-master's house and ticket office, now private house; c1836 with later C19 rear additions. Possibly by Benjamin Green for the Newcastle and Carlisle Railway Co. Squared stone in narrow courses; slate roof; stone and brick chimneys. Tudor style. Single storey plus attic, 3 bays. Central replaced door in chamfered surround. Segmental-arched ticket office window with original pierced iron grille to left. 2-light chamfered-mullioned windows under hoodmoulds in end bays; window at left retains paired 8-pane sashes. Large corbelled-out, gabled half-dormer above doorway. Dormer has 2-light window under hoodmould, blind chamfered loop above and coped gable with shaped footstones. Flanking unsympathetic mid C20 dormers. Steeply-pitched roof. Left end rebuilt brick stack. Right end chimney with 2 truncated octagonal-plan stacks. Replaced sashes in chamfered surrounds on right return. 2-storey later gabled wing and lean-to additions on right rear. Mid C20 link section to Ghyllbrae (qv) on left return is not of special interest. (G Whittle, The Newcastle and Carlisle Railway, 1979).

Listing NGR: NY6355266337

External Links

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