Keighley Junction Signal Box Approximately 10 Metres to North-West of Bridge Over Railway is a Grade II listed building in the Bradford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 4 December 1986. Signal box. 1 related planning application.

Keighley Junction Signal Box Approximately 10 Metres to North-West of Bridge Over Railway

WRENN ID
swift-storey-juniper
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Bradford
Constituency
Keighley and Ilkley MP: Robbie Moore (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
4 December 1986
Type
Signal box
OS grid reference
SE 065 413
Coordinates
53.8682, -1.90237
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Keighley Junction Signal Box, built in 1884 for the Midland Railway Company, is located approximately 10 metres to the north-west of the bridge over the railway. This two-storey, single-cell structure features a timber Welsh slate roof and measures two bays by one bay. The ground floor is vertically boarded, while the first floor has vertical boarding and glazing, with window frames that have angled top corners. The signal box is supported by large angle posts, and the narrow intermediate posts on the first floor are chamfered.

The eaves board is prominent, and the hipped oversailing roof is adorned with two wooden finials, one of which is missing its top. The north-west end has a boarded door at ground level, with wooden steps leading up to a first-floor doorway that is flanked by two 4-pane windows on the left and one on the right. The right side features one 4-pane window on the first floor to the left and a small inserted window to the right. The left side, which faces the main line, has an entirely glazed first floor with two pairs of large sliding sashes that include glazing bars. Below this is a board that is lettered "Keighley Station Junction." The rear of the building has an added out-shut that masks the ground floor, while the first floor has a wide side-sliding sash with glazing bars.

Inside, the ground floor contains mechanical relays operated from the upper room, which is connected by levers. The tipper room has a full range of signal levers on one side, with a bracketed shelf above that holds block instruments and bells, including one old bell. There is also an old wooden bench-locker, and the space was originally heated by a coal grate, later replaced by a Romesse stove, although the flue hole has been blocked up. This signal box is of the Midland Type 2a design, known for being one of the most common signal box types, and it is noted that it may soon become the oldest surviving Midland box.

Local climate

Keighley Junction Signal Box Approximately 10 Metres to North-West of Bridge Over Railway sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,040 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 84% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 77% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 48 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 90% of listed buildings. Of these, 27 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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