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Warkworth Station 1041694

• geometry: MULTIPOLYGON (((-1.633455 55.353875,-1.633496 55.353887,-1.633560...
• entry-date: 2013-01-29
• listed-building: 1041694
• name: Warkworth Station
• notes: WARKWORTH WARKWORTH STATION NU 20 NW 10/353 Warkworth Station GV II Railway station, now divided into 2 private houses, c.1847 by Benjamin Green for the Newcastle and Berwick Railway Co. Squared tooled stone with raised tooled ashlar quoins and dressings; Welsh slate roofs. Main part H-plan, with single storey wings to south and north-east and outshut on north. Tudor style. East elevation: Main part 2 storeys on tall basement, 1 + 1 + 1 bays. Recessed centre has renewed door at head of external stair (partly collapsed at time of survey) with single and 2-light windows on left, and central gabled dormer holding 2-light window. Gabled left end bay has flight of 17 steps up to portico; flanking walls have pitched coping and end piers with chamfered plinths and pyramidal caps. Portico has diagonal buttresses and 3 pointed arches (left with door), with old margined glazing, below a moulded parapet; one similar arch on each return of portico; 3-light window above. Inside portico centre-opening panelled door flanked by 8-pane sashes. Gabled right end bay behind lower projecting L-plan wing; inner return shows 4-panel door with 3-light window to left, and renewed window in gabled half dormer. Far left lower part with boarded door to basement; two single and one 2-light window above; left return shows canted bay window. Most windows are 8-pane sashes; slits in gables. All openings in raised chamfered surrounds with extended lintels, sill and mid-blocks; some under straight drip-moulds. Gables coped on moulded kneelers, some retaining ball finials. Stepped-and- corniced stacks,with diagonally-set multiple shafts, on ridges and some gables. Rear elevation to railway: Cross wings extend to flank platform canopy, now with C20 part-glazed front wall; above canopy an empty clock surround and 2 windows in gabled half dormers. Wing to right has 2-storey canted bay. Lower part to far right also has canopy with C20 part-glazed front wall. Interior: Platform canopies have arcades of timber posts with wavy braces to axial and transverse members. Several contemporary fireplaces. The room with the canted bay in the single-storey south wing is said to have been the Duke of Northumberland's private waiting room. ,
• reference: 1041694
• start-date: 1988-09-01