Carnforth Station Junction Signal Box is a Grade II listed building in the Lancaster local planning authority area, England. First listed on 15 February 1989. Signal box. 2 related planning applications.
Carnforth Station Junction Signal Box
- WRENN ID
- steep-chimney-owl
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Lancaster
- Constituency
- Morecambe and Lunesdale MP: Lizzi Collinge (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 15 February 1989
- Type
- Signal box
- Address
- Carnforth Station Junction Signal Box, LA5 9ET
- OS grid reference
- SD 496 709
- Coordinates
- 54.13164, -2.77174
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Carnforth Station Junction Signal Box is a signal box built in 1903 for the Furness Railway. It features a brick base with a glazed operating room and a hipped roof made of Welsh slate. The base consists of five depressed brick panels, each containing a one-light window, and has entries at both ends. This signal box is part of a unique group of railway buildings that includes other former Steamtown railway structures and the Carnforth station box.
Local climate
Carnforth Station Junction Signal Box sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,400 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 97% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 98% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 28 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 69% of listed buildings. Of these, 12 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
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- Related listed building consents — 2 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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