Ecclesfield Signal Box on Railway Lane is a Grade II listed building in the Sheffield local planning authority area, England. First listed on 22 May 1990. Signal box.

Ecclesfield Signal Box on Railway Lane

WRENN ID
small-ember-martin
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Sheffield
Constituency
Penistone and Stocksbridge MP: Dr Marie Tidball (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
22 May 1990
Type
Signal box
Address
Ecclesfield Signal Box on Railway Lane, Station Road
OS grid reference
SK 365 941
Coordinates
53.44253, -1.45125
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Ecclesfield Signal Box, located on Railway Lane, is a late 19th-century signal box built by the Midland Railway. It features a timber frame with both horizontal and vertical board cladding and is topped with a Welsh slate roof. The building is two storeys tall and consists of a single cell. The ground floor has horizontal boarding, while the upper floor has vertical boarding. The windows are wood-framed with shouldered heads and small-pane glazing. On the south-east side, there is a boarded door on the left and a window on the right. Steps lead up to the first-floor door, which is flanked by windows. A name board is positioned at the eaves on the right side. The roof is oversailing and hipped, complete with an apex finial. The railway side features a blind on the ground floor, with continuous glazing and a balcony above. On the north-west side, there are two ground-floor windows. Inside, the switching gear was removed around 1977, but the bench box remains.

Local climate

Ecclesfield Signal Box on Railway Lane receives an average of 890 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 65% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 53% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 39 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 76% of listed buildings. Of these, 21 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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