Monks Siding Signal Box is a Grade II listed building in the Warrington local planning authority area, England. First listed on 21 November 2013. Signal box. 1 related planning application.
Monks Siding Signal Box
- WRENN ID
- outer-span-rain
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Warrington
- Constituency
- Warrington South MP: Sarah Hall (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 21 November 2013
- Type
- Signal box
- Address
- Monks Siding Signal Box, WA5 1AR
- OS grid reference
- SJ 591 877
- Coordinates
- 53.38468, -2.61512
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Monks Siding Signal Box is a railway signal box built in 1875 for the London and North Western Railway, designed in the Type 3 style of 1874.
The structure features a brick base laid in English Bond, with a timber upper floor covered in horizontal weatherboarding. It has uPVC windows and a Welsh slate roof finished with grey hip and ridge tiles. The signal box is two storeys high and consists of two bays, topped with a hipped roof. The operating room is fully glazed at the front (north-west) and sides, with a single window at the rear that overlooks the approach to the nearby level crossing. The replacement windows do not match the original glazing pattern. Access to the operating floor is now via an external flight of steel steps located at the south-western end. The original entrance at the north-eastern end is indicated by a change in weatherboarding and a window with a raised sill. The door to the locking room remains in its original position below, featuring a segmental arched head made of brick headers. The two windows in the locking room that overlook the tracks also have similar arched heads and retain timber joinery with 4-pane fixed lights.
Inside, the signal box still has its original 20-lever London and North Western Railway Tumbler frame.
Local climate
Monks Siding Signal Box sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,000 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 80% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 65% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 35 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 59% of listed buildings. Of these, 17 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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- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
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