Upper Waiting Room, Cliff Railway

The Upper Waiting Room at the Cliff Railway in Lynton is a small pavilion built in 1890 by Bob Jones. Originally a waiting room, it now incorporates a shop and a small room for rail staff. The structure features timber framing, some rubble walling, and an asbestos cement slate roof.

It has a hipped roof with a gabled dormer at the entrance end, above wide overhanging eaves supported by timber brackets. The main framing members are chamfered and stopped at all junctions, framing alternating wide and very narrow plate-glass lights above plastered panels. The entrance door is panelled with glass and has vertical boards on the top panel, topped by a transom light. The side facing the tracks has two large tripartite plate sashes. The under-eaves are boarded, and the entry side has cleats that likely accommodated shutters, which are no longer present. At the eastern end, there is a flat-roofed section enclosed by a rubble wall with moulded coping.

Inside, the shop has a boarded ceiling, while the office features a plank dado. This cliff railway was the first of its kind in England, opened on Easter Day in 1890, thanks to the efforts of Sir George Newnes and Sir Thomas Hewitt, and it continues to operate using water.