London Road Gatehouse and Signals Cabin is a Grade II listed building in the Boston local planning authority area, England. First listed on 14 February 1975. Gatehouse, signals cabin.
London Road Gatehouse and Signals Cabin
- WRENN ID
- fading-timber-fen
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Boston
- Constituency
- Boston and Skegness MP: Richard Tice (RUK)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 14 February 1975
- Type
- Gatehouse, signals cabin
- OS grid reference
- TF 326 430
- Coordinates
- 52.96858, -0.02635
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The London Road Gatehouse and Signals Cabin is a gatehouse and signals cabin built in 1884. It is constructed of red brick with blue brick dressings and features a slate roof with blue angle raised ridges and a terracotta pinnacle atop its pyramid roof. The building has an octagonal plan and is a single storey structure with a plinth and a moulded eaves cornice. Each face has a sliding sash window with glazing bars, except for the entrance on the north side, which has a half-glazed door accessed by two steps. Inside, the cabin contains a 12-lever Saxby and Farmer frame. This gatehouse and cabin are responsible for controlling the Swing Bridge, which was built to connect the docks to the single track railway.
Local climate
London Road Gatehouse and Signals Cabin 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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