Railway Signal Box on South Platform is a Grade II listed building in the Northumberland local planning authority area, England. First listed on 27 July 1987. Signal box.

Railway Signal Box on South Platform

WRENN ID
western-keystone-elm
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Northumberland
Constituency
Hexham MP: Joe Morris (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
27 July 1987
Type
Signal box
Address
Railway Signal Box on South Platform, Station Road, Haltwhistle
OS grid reference
NY 704 638
Coordinates
54.96795, -2.46242
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The railway signal box on the south platform at Haltwhistle Station was built in the late 19th century for the North Eastern Railway Company. It features a ground floor made of engineering brick in English bond and a first floor that is weather-boarded, topped with a Welsh slate roof. The structure is two storeys high and includes a four-panel door on the left side of the ground floor. The first floor has a deep cyma-reversa weather-boarded coving on the overhanging front and rear, with four glazed bays above raised-and-fielded panels, each bay containing three cross windows. A cast-iron walkway with railings surrounds all four sides. The roof is low-pitched and hipped, with overhanging eaves and two glazed bays on each return. A wooden ladder stair on the left leads to a boarded door on the first floor. This building is included for its group value.

Local climate

Railway Signal Box on South Platform sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,010 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 81% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 70% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 59 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 98% of listed buildings. Of these, 37 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.

Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.

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