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The new home of Berwick Film & Media Arts Festival and The Burr Film Library.
This is an empty shop, it has signage for ‘COXON & COXON Wine Rooms’ outside. The inside is a ground floor venue with two levels. There is no step-free entrance, the side entrance has a small shallow step with a metal doorway lip. The venue has some narrow parts to navigate. The venue has no accessible toilet. Volunteers and Festival staff will be available during opening hours. Guide dogs are warmly welcomed.
There are two entrances into this venue. The shopfront entrance is up two steps. The steps have dark grey tiles with silver contrast edgings. The second entrance is not step-free but offers an option with shallower steps and doorway lips. It is through the dark brown wooden door next to the shopfront door, it’s marked 22B. It leads to an alleyway 100cm wide, the flooring is concrete and smooth. The side entrance of the venue is through the first door on the right. The side entrance takes you into the kitchen which requires turning a corner in a confined space, 75cm at the most narrow point, to access the main venue room through a doorway with silver chainlink metal curtains either side of the door.
Room Description: An shop on two levels with one step between them. The step has a silver contrasting edging. There is an adjoining small room with a kitchen and single non-accessible toilet.
Doorways: The shopfront doorway is 73cm wide. The side entrance doorway is 80cm wide. The doorway between the main room and the small room with a kitchen and toilet is 73cm wide. All doors are single non-automated doors.
Toilets: There is a single toilet in the smaller room in the venue. It has a folding non-automated door that is 61cm wide. The toilet cubicle is small, 62cm wide at the narrowest point from the sink to the wall. It has no accessible features. There are no babychanging facilities.
Temperature: Warm
Lighting: Hanging ceiling lights in main room. Fluorescent white light in toilet. Yellow-warm fluorescent light in the kitchen. Natural light from the shopfront window.
Flooring: Varnished light brown smooth floorboards in the main room. Dark grey lino in the kitchen, bubbled up in some areas.
Sound: Some ambient sound from the street like cars and people passing.
Patterns: Cream window grid on the shopfront window. Faux tricolour brick wallpaper in the kitchen. Light brown wooden horizontal panelling in the toilet. Large white, dark grey and light grey patterned splashback tiles in the toilet. Silver chainlink curtain in the doorway from, the main room to the smaller room.
Smell: Neutral
There is no food and drink available at this venue. There are several cafes and restaurants close by.
The emergency exits are through the two entrances, either the shopfront entrance or the side entrance through the kitchen. The emergency meeting point is outside on the pavement across the street.
22 Bridge St, Berwick-upon-Tweed TD15 1AQ
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