Lower Waiting Room, Cliff Railway

The Lower Waiting Room at the Cliff Railway in Lynmouth is a waiting room with an attached workshop, built in 1890. It was funded by Sir George Newnes and constructed by Bob Jones. The building features a timber frame, rubble walls, and an asbestos-cement slate roof. It is designed as a rectangular pavilion with a deep, decorative gable on the south side, located at the foot of the railway. The front has a diagonally-boarded gable supported by an open truss with curved braces and a barge-board, above a large plate-glass window and two narrower windows beside a framed door with diagonal planking. The return side has four similar glazed panels, each with a narrower light above, though the first and third panels are diagonally boarded. The frame members are square in section, with chamfered members and run-out stops at each junction. The outer gable facing the Esplanade has diagonal boarding but is partially obscured by a later service block. To the west of the main pavilion is a small workshop built of rubble, which has been extended by a later lean-to.

Inside, the waiting room has a concrete floor and is divided into two bays, featuring a king-post roof truss with cross-bracing, with all members displaying stopped chamfers like the main framing.

Historically, the pavilion remains largely unchanged and continues to serve its original purpose. It originally had a tiled roof and shares a similar style with the Upper Waiting Room on Lee Road. The railway was inaugurated on Easter Day in 1890, and the builder's grandson, who still works for the railway, notes that "Newnes' money and Jones' brains built Lynton and Lynmouth," which included this structure.