Sleaford East Signal Box is a Grade II listed building in the North Kesteven local planning authority area, England. First listed on 10 December 1986. Signal box. 2 related planning applications.
Sleaford East Signal Box
- WRENN ID
- secret-paling-pearl
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- North Kesteven
- Constituency
- Sleaford and North Hykeham MP: Dr Caroline Johnson (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 10 December 1986
- Type
- Signal box
- Address
- Sleaford East Signal Box, Grantham Road
- OS grid reference
- TF 068 454
- Coordinates
- 52.99528, -0.40904
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Sleaford East Signal Box is a railway signal box built around 1882 for the Great Northern and Great Eastern Joint Railway. It is constructed of red brick and wood, featuring slate roofs and decorative barge boards with finials, along with a single external gable stack on the north side. The building is two storeys high, with a blank ground floor and a wooden external staircase located at the south gable. The east front displays four sets of large three-light sliding sash windows above, along with the remnants of an iron balcony. This structure is included in the listing for its group value only.
Local climate
Sleaford East Signal Box sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 720 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 81% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 87% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 33 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 54% of listed buildings. Of these, 16 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- 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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