West Street Junction Box is a Grade II listed building in the Boston local planning authority area, England. First listed on 2 May 1986. Signal box.
West Street Junction Box
- WRENN ID
- errant-sill-spindle
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Boston
- Constituency
- Boston and Skegness MP: Richard Tice (RUK)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 2 May 1986
- Type
- Signal box
- Address
- West Street Junction Box, Sleaford Road
- OS grid reference
- TF 322 439
- Coordinates
- 52.9766, -0.03203
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The West Street Junction Box is a signal box built in 1875 for the Great Northern Railway. It features a butt brick structure with timber cladding and a Welsh slate roof. The brick base includes a glazing bar window at one end.
The signalman's room is located at first floor level and is fully glazed on all four sides, with six-paned timber windows—eight on the sides and four on the gable ends. The gables are boarded and include decorative carved bargeboards and a timber finial. In 1894, a 60-lever McKenzie and Holland frame replaced the original, and a gate wheel was also installed.
This signal box is notable for being the oldest Great Northern Railway signal box still in use, originally built to manage the northern junction of the main line with the goods line near the West Street level crossing.
Local climate
West Street Junction Box sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 690 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 96% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 79% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 25 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 73% 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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