Halesworth Station Moving Platforms is a Grade II listed building in the East Suffolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 4 February 2019. Railway platform.
Halesworth Station Moving Platforms
- WRENN ID
- wild-tallow-khaki
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- East Suffolk
- Constituency
- Waveney Valley MP: Adrian Ramsay (Green)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 4 February 2019
- Type
- Railway platform
- Address
- Halesworth Station Moving Platforms, Station Road, IP19 8JS
- OS grid reference
- TM 388 779
- Coordinates
- 52.34718, 1.50567
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Halesworth Station Moving Platforms are a set of four movable passenger railway platforms that date back to 1888 and were refurbished in 1922, built for the East Suffolk Line.
These platforms are narrow and rectangular, constructed from cross-braced wrought iron with wooden planks forming the surfaces, which are also fitted with iron railings. They are located to the northwest of the station building, positioned along both sides of the track.
The platforms consist of four sections that meet in the middle when closed. The timber board surfaces have iron railings, and although they are currently permanently closed, they were originally designed to swing open across the tracks, creating a bridge between the two platforms. The curved ends of the platforms fit into matching curved brick enclosures. A plaque on the north side of the platform reads ‘BOULTON AND PAUL LTD, ENGRS 1922’, and there is a platform gate on the north side.
The station building itself is a post-war partial reconstruction of the original and is not considered to be of special interest.
Local climate
Halesworth Station Moving Platforms sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 730 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 80% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 59% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 15 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 85% of listed buildings. Of these, 9 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.
Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.
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