NHER 63780 (Building record) - Former Cromer Beach Railway Station, Holt Road, Cromer
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Summary
Protected Status/Designation
- None recorded
Location
| Map sheet | TG24SW |
|---|---|
| Civil Parish | CROMER, NORTH NORFOLK, NORFOLK |
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Full Description
Former Cromer Beach Railway Station, Holt Road, Cromer.
Cromer Beach railway station opened on 16 June 1887 after the construction of the Eastern & Midlands Railway (EMR), later the Midland and Great Northern Joint Railway (MGNJR) (NHER 13584), enabled a station to be built towards the centre of the town. Previously, Cromer High railway station was the only station, sited on the southern edge of the town. Both continued in use until Cromer High closed in 1954, at which point Cromer Beach was renamed 'Cromer' station. The station is now unmanned and in 1998 the station building became a public house and later a nightclub. Currently the building is disused.
The mock-Tudor station building is of asymmetrical U-shaped plan, consisting of two two-storey wings projecting southwards and a long single-storey linking block. The structure is of red brick with a red plain tile roof. The upper-storey of each wing is jettied and timber framed, with some straight diagonal bracing. The infill within the timber frame is mostly rendered but the lowest level has diagonal red brick nogging. The larger western wing has a single gable, while the eastern smaller but taller wing is double-gabled. The linking block has a central giant-gabled entranceway facing south. The giant-gable is of red brick construction with some exposed timbers and the entrance has a canopy constructed of two iron moulded pillars with monogrammed MGNJR brackets and a glass roof. The building has sash windows throughout: those in the ground floor set within painted and possibly rendered mullioned window frames.
The northern side of the building flanks the station platform, which was originally butted by the ‘traverse ridge-and-furrow roof’ (S1) of the red brick trainshed. The roof was supported by iron brackets monogrammed with EMR. This structure does not survive.
Information from Monograph (S1), Website (S2), Photographs (S3) and (S4) and Drawing (S5).
A. Beckham (HES), 12 November 2019.
Associated Sources (5)
- <S1> SNF90056 Monograph: Biddle, G.. 2011. Britain's Historic Railway Buildings: A Gazetteer of Structures and Sites. pp 259-261.
- <S2> SNF100234 Website: Wikimedia Foundation, Inc.. ?-2020. Wikipedia. The Free Encyclopedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page. 26 May 2020. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cromer_railway_station. Last accessed 12 Nov 2019..
- <S3> SNF100235 Photograph: Google Earth. 2011-2025. Google Earth Pro Street View. Digital. Cromer Station: July 2017.
- <S4> SNF100237 Photograph: Albone, J. 2019. Photographs of Cromer Railway Station. Digital. jpeg.
- <S5> SNF100236 Drawing: Marriott, W.. Unknown. Cromer Beach Station Buildings: From the general arrangement sheet of the construction drawings drawn by William Marriott. Digital (JPEG).
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Record last edited
May 18 2020 1:44PM