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Latitude: 50.8404 / 50°50'25"N
Longitude: 0.1657 / 0°9'56"E
OS Eastings: 552580
OS Northings: 106780
OS Grid: TQ525067
Mapcode National: GBR MTB.6Q4
Mapcode Global: FRA C67W.8C5
Plus Code: 9F22R5R8+57
Entry Name: Platform waiting room, Berwick Station
Listing Date: 10 October 2013
Grade: II
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1416308
ID on this website: 101416308
Location: Berwick, Wealden, East Sussex, BN26
County: East Sussex
District: Wealden
Town: Wealden
Civil Parish: Berwick
Traditional County: Sussex
Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): East Sussex
Church of England Parish: Berwick St Michael and All Angels
Church of England Diocese: Chichester
Tagged with: Architectural structure
Platform waiting room. Built in 1877 for the London Brighton & South Coast Railway (LB&SCR).
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.
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.
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.
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