Listed Building: Woody Bay Station, lever hut and stable (MDE11177)

Woody Bay Station was built in 1898 for the Lynton & Barnstaple Railway; it was possibly designed by Robert (Bob) Jones. The Lynton & Barnstaple Railway was taken over by the Southern Railway in 1923, and the line was closed in 1935. Woody Bay Station reopened as a heritage railway station in 2004. Woody Bay Station, near Parracombe, Devon is listed at Grade II for the following principal reasons: Architectural interest: * as the best-surviving example of a station building on the Lynton & Barnstaple Railway, which operated from 1898 and closed under the Southern Railway in 1935; * despite the loss of the ticket office fittings, the building retains a good proportion of historic fabric both externally and within the stationmaster’s accommodation; * the station’s architectural design is neat and accomplished, and cleverly relates to the C19 tourist publicity of the area as ‘Little Switzerland’. Historic interest: * for the railway’s association with Sir George Newnes, who did much for the communities and tourism in the Lynton and Lynmouth area in the late C19. Group value: * with the Grade II-listed top and bottom waiting room at the Lynton & Lynmouth Cliff Railway, which were possibly also designed by Bob Jones; and with the Grade II listed Chelfham Viaduct which was built for the Lynton & Barnstaple Railway.