Bus Station

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SEATON CAREW THE FRONT (east side). Bus Station

(Formerly listed as Bus Station and beach shelter)

II Rendered brick and reinforced concrete, all painted, with flat reinforced concrete and asphalt roofs. Art Deco style; symmetrical plan. Central clock tower projects from adjoining single-storey utility building flanked by staircases and landings. This was formerly linked to a rectangular-plan shelter to the rear that was demolished circa 1993. Single-storey concave-plan passenger shelters, to left and right of clock tower, form a crescent facing The Front. The Clock tower is a simple square shaft on a panelled pedestal; each of the shaft sides has a single tall, round-headed panel with clock face above a large reeded corbel, the corners of the tower having additional detail in the form of simple, clasping, low-relief buttresses. The doorways to the utility building have flat surrounds. The staircases and decks of the utility block have steel geometric-pattern balustrades with end and intermediate fluted piers on moulded corbels. Passenger shelters are open-fronted with 4 circular shafts and responds and at their ends they have slightly projecting convex-plan pavilions. Deep eaves cornice and shallow parapet. Timber seating fixed to rear walls.

Listing NGR: NZ5261329535