Bardon Mill Station Signal Box

Bardon Mill Station Signal Box is a railway signal box built around 1874 by the North Eastern Railway Company for the Newcastle and Carlisle Railway. It is designed in the Type N1 style, which was popular from the 1870s to the 1890s.

The signal box is prominently located on the south side of the railway track and is constructed of red brick laid in English Garden Wall bond, with foundations made of rock-faced coursed stone. It features a low-pitched hipped roof covered with Welsh slate and round ridge tiles. Access to the raised operating floor is provided on the east side by a wooden stair that turns right and leads to an external timber porch, which has a three-over-three window and a 20th-century external door. The north front, which faces the track, and the sides of the building are fitted with horizontal sliding sash windows that have regular, narrow glazing bars. There is one sash window on the east elevation and two on both the north and west elevations. These windows are set above a plain stone string course. On the ground floor, there is a locker room with a door below the porch on the east wall and a window in the north wall, both featuring stone lintels.

Inside, the raised operating floor includes a glass nine-pane internal porch door and a ceiling supported by timber hip and jack and common roof rafters, which are partially exposed and painted. The wooden operating floor has been partially removed, following the recent removal of a reconditioned McKenzie & Holland 20-lever frame and block shelf that was installed around 1966. Originally, the frame was located at the rear of the box, with the operator facing away from the tracks, which is unusual. The locker room still has the brick support for a fireplace or stove that was originally situated in the south wall of the raised operating floor, along with a nine-pane timber window frame with regular, narrow glazing bars in the north wall.