Survey Data
Reg No
20907668
Rating
Regional
Categories of Special Interest
Architectural
Original Use
Worker's house
In Use As
House
Date
1860 - 1900
Coordinates
187895, 74218
Date Recorded
20/05/2008
Date Updated
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Description
Terrace of twelve two-bay two-storey former railway workers' houses, built c. 1880, now in use as private houses. Pitched slate roofs with red brick chimneystacks, gabled dormers, carved timber bargeboards and cast-iron rainwater goods. Some rainwater goods and bargeboards now replaced. Roughly dressed rubble limestone walls with red brick block-and-start surrounds, camber-headed concrete lintels and limestone sills to windows. Metal pivot windows, set in paired arrangement to ground floor. Timber battened doors. Fittings to openings replaced in many houses. Red brick boundary walls and piers having wrought-iron railings and gates.
Appraisal
Located to the south-west of the station and master's house, this terrace forms part of a group of railway related structures. It is an interesting reminder of the standard of railway worker's housing in the nineteenth century. The red brick, grey limestone, carved timber details, and particularly the iron, are typical of the materials utilised by the railway companies in their buildings.