Sheringham Railway Station including two telegraph posts and four lamp posts

Sheringham Railway Station is a single-storey red brick building constructed in 1887 for the Eastern and Midlands Railway, probably designed by William Marriott, the company's engineer. A separate office for Great Eastern Railway staff was added in 1906. The station closed in 1967 when British Rail opened a replacement 200 metres to the east, and additions from 1897 on the opposite platform—comprising a canopy, screen wall and offices—were demolished at that time. The station reopened in July 1975 on the North Norfolk Railway's preserved line, which originally ran from Sheringham to Weybourne but was extended to Holt in 1989. The listing includes two telegraph poles and four lamp posts on Platform 1 but excludes Sheringham East Signal Box and later additions from 2016: a footbridge, toilet block and souvenir shop.

The station is built of red brick in Flemish bond with buff and blue brick dressings and a Welsh slate roof with red brick stacks. The platform canopy has cast-iron columns and a glass roof.

The original 1887 station building stands on the north side of the tracks on Platform 1. It is rectangular, aligned west-north-west to east-south-east, and consists of three adjoining blocks: a booking hall and ladies' waiting room; a range formerly containing the station master's office, waiting room and parcels and goods office (now combined as a buffet); and a kitchen/storeroom (originally a separate gentlemen's water closet and storeroom, combined in the late 20th century). The detached Great Eastern Railway staff office built in 1906, now used by North Norfolk Railway staff, stands immediately to the east.

The 1887 and 1906 buildings have identical external treatment apart from the former storeroom. All feature a chamfered plinth edged with splayed blue bricks, half-hipped roofs with gables of patterned timber-framing, and segmental-headed windows and doorways with buff-brick surrounds. The windows are timber-framed eight-over-four horned sashes with blue-brick bullnose cills, and doors have sunk panels with bolection mouldings.

The booking hall and waiting room elevation facing Railway Approach is arranged in 1:2:3:2 bays, with the three-bay section masked by a gabled entrance porch with buff-brick corner pilasters and a pair of eight-over-four fixed windows in a single opening. Behind this are double doors with two panels and flanking sashes. The flanking two-bay ranges are gabled with two sashes each, and a single bay at the east end is set back with a narrow eight-over-four hopper window. The left-hand return has three single-light windows with horizontal glazing bars. The three gables have timber framing with roughcast render infill and overhanging eaves with deep bargeboards and spike finials.

Set back on the west side of the booking hall is the former station master's office, waiting room and parcels and goods office (now a buffet). Its façade is divided into 3:2:1:1 bays by buff-brick strip pilasters, to which are fixed cast-iron brackets with foliated pierced spandrels supporting a flat-roofed timber canopy with pierced daggerboard valancing of shingled (pointed) daggers. From left to right it has: a central doorway with half-glazed and panelled double doors flanked by a sash to the left and a bricked-up window to the right; a two-panelled two-light door and a sash; a doorway with two-panelled double doors with raised pyramidal panels; and a sash. The right-hand return has a half-glazed heck door with a multi-paned top section and fanlight.

Set back again on the west side is the former gentlemen's water closet (now buffet kitchen) and storeroom. Originally separate structures—the water closet flat-roofed—they were combined under a single gabled roof in the late 20th century. The former water closet has a blind elevation with buff-brick quoins and a buff-brick strip pilaster at each end. The storeroom has buff-brick quoins at each end, two single-light windows on the left-hand side and a pair of sliding timber doors off-centre to the right. The gabled right-hand return has a single-light louvred window.

The platform elevation is arranged as 1:3:3:3:3:1 bays, with a formerly open section at the west end of the former goods and parcels office infilled in the late 20th century. From east to west, the waiting room has a set-back bay with a narrow eight-over-four hopper window at its east end and a projecting three-bay section with a central four-panel door and flanking sashes, with buff-brick quoins to the right-hand corner and a buff-brick strip pilaster to the left. Set back to its left is the three-bay booking hall with two-panelled double doors flanked on each side by sashes. Projecting to the left, with buff-brick quoins to the right-hand corner and a buff-brick strip pilaster to the left, is a three-bay section with three sashes, probably the former station master's office. To its left again is a further three-bay section with buff-brick strip pilasters at each end and half-glazed double doors flanked by sashes on each side, possibly a former waiting room. To the left again is a single bay defined by buff-brick quoins with a two-panelled, two-light door. A British Rail (East) station clock with its case supported on decorative scrolled iron brackets projects to the right of the door. Adjoining to the left is the former parcels and goods office, originally open to the platform but enclosed in the late 20th century. It consists of a single-bay kiosk and four bays of three-light mullion and transom windows, with half-glazed double doors to the first bay from the right, all above diagonally-aligned matchboard. The platform in front of these principal ranges, except for the set-back bay at the east end, is covered by a seven-bay ridge and furrow canopy with a hipped glass roof and pierced daggerboard valancing of shingled (pointed) daggers. It is supported on paired cast-iron brackets on cast-iron columns with scalloped capitals, along with cast-iron brackets fixed to the station building. The brackets have decorative spandrels with pierced foliate work.

Projecting slightly at the west end of the former parcels and goods office is the former gentlemen's water closet (now buffet kitchen). It has three irregular bays defined by buff-brick strip pilasters, between which are recessed panels with dentilled heads. The narrower right-hand bay has a flat-headed doorway, while the two bays to its left have off-centre right sashes inserted in the late 20th century. A former open entrance to the left was infilled in the late 20th century with a timber door set behind a barred cast-iron gate. The storeroom to the left has buff-brick quoins and a sliding timber door with an inset pedestrian door.

The Great Eastern Railway office of 1906 stands immediately east of the original station building. Its Railway Approach elevation has an off-centre left external stack with a two-panel, two-light door to its right. The platform elevation has an identical door to the left and two sashes to the right.

Inside, the booking hall has a parquet timber floor and four king-post trusses to a matchboard-clad roof. Its west side comprises a timber-framed screen with two ticket windows and a 20th-century replacement door giving access to the booking office behind. The east side has a four-panel door with bolection mouldings and a cast-iron stove. Walls are plastered and painted with a moulded dado rail.

The ladies' waiting room has a painted concrete floor, moulded dado and picture rails, and a matchboard ceiling with a moulded cornice. A cast-iron fireplace on its west side has tiled insets and a bolection-moulded timber surround. Its east side has two four-panelled water closet doors with bolection mouldings.

The three-bay section at the east end of the former parcels and goods office, probably the station master's office, was opened out in the late 20th century to form a buffet. It has a parquet floor, moulded dado rail, moulded cornice and matchboard ceiling. Beneath the three sashes on its south (platform) side are in-built cupboards and drawers beneath a sloping countertop. Its east side has a cast-iron fireplace with pyramidal corner blocks, tiled inserts, imitation marble surround, painted mantle shelf and a lintel bearing the initials of the Midland & Great Northern. To the right of the fireplace are high-level cupboards with panelled doors, and to its left is a two-panelled, two-light door.

Adjoining the former station master's office is a further three-bay section, probably a waiting room, which also has a parquet floor, moulded dado rail, moulded cornice and matchboard ceiling. On its north side is a cast-iron fireplace with tiled jambs, imitation marble surround, painted mantle shelf and a lintel bearing the initials of the Midland & Great Northern.

To the west again is a section formerly open to the platform but infilled in the late 20th century to form a buffet. Its principal features are the cast-iron brackets with decorative pierced spandrels with foliate work that support the glazed platform canopy. Its east end has been opened out into the adjoining former gentlemen's toilet to accommodate a kitchen.

The Great Eastern Railway office of 1906 is entered from platform or roadside into a north-south aligned corridor, with the main office accessed through a heck door on its west side. It has plain plastered walls and ceilings, with the only decorative feature being a moulded picture rail.

The Midland & Great Northern Joint Railway engineer William Marriott took particular interest in concrete as a building material, and many items were manufactured at the company's works at Melton Constable during the early and mid-20th century. A number of concrete structures survive at Sheringham, including two telegraph poles—one at each end of the main station building—and four lamp posts (lights now missing) at the west end of Platform 1.