Platform waiting room, Berwick Station
Berwick Railway Station, Berwick , Polegate, East Sussex, BN26 6TB
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1416308
- Date first listed:
- 10-Oct-2013
- List Entry Name:
- Platform waiting room, Berwick Station
- Statutory Address:
- Berwick Railway Station, Berwick , Polegate, East Sussex, BN26 6TB
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1416308
- Date first listed:
- 10-Oct-2013
- List Entry Name:
- Platform waiting room, Berwick Station
- Statutory Address 1:
- Berwick Railway Station, Berwick , Polegate, East Sussex, BN26 6TB
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- Berwick Railway Station, Berwick , Polegate, East Sussex, BN26 6TB
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- East Sussex
- District:
- Wealden (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Berwick
- National Grid Reference:
- TQ5257906779
Summary
Platform waiting room. Built in 1877 for the London Brighton & South Coast Railway (LB&SCR).
Reasons for Designation
The platform waiting room at Berwick Station, a timber-framed building built in 1877 for the London Brighton & South Coast Railway, is listed at Grade II for the following principal reasons:
* Historic interest: a relatively early example of a platform waiting room;
* Rarity: timber waiting rooms are increasingly rare due to high rates of attrition;
* Degree of survival: survives well despite some later modifications such as the installation of metal seating;
* Group value: as part of a now rare grouping of country railway buildings.
History
The erection of a waiting shelter was considered at the Traffic Committee meeting of the LB&SCR Board on 6 June 1877. A tender by John Knight for £83 5s was accepted.
Details
MATERIALS: timber frame clad with weatherboarding. The rear elevation has a brick plinth.
PLAN: rectangular plan divided into two waiting rooms.
EXTERIOR: located on the Up platform, the enclosed shelter has a flat felted roof and overhanging canopy with a scalloped valance. Each of the waiting rooms has a separate platform entrance and sash window. A window in the west elevation has been boarded up. At the east end of the shelter is a late-C20 open extension housing an automatic ticket machine (which is not of special interest).
INTERIOR: the interior of the eastern waiting rooms has plain weatherboarding and modern metal seating (the seats are not of special interest). The western waiting room is no longer open to the public and was not inspected.
Sources
Books and journals
Biddle, G, Victorian Stations, (1973)
Hoare, J, Sussex Railway Architecture, (1980)
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
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