Signal Box is a Grade II listed building in the North Kesteven local planning authority area, England. First listed on 9 December 1983. Signal box.
Signal Box
- WRENN ID
- vast-rubble-bone
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- North Kesteven
- Constituency
- Sleaford and North Hykeham MP: Dr Caroline Johnson (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 9 December 1983
- Type
- Signal box
- Address
- Signal Box, Swinderby Road
- OS grid reference
- SK 868 643
- Coordinates
- 53.16947, -0.70229
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The signal box, built around 1850, is made of wood and features a hipped slate roof topped with a single finial. The lower section is barge boarded and has glazing bar windows on three sides. It includes iron steps and an iron balcony. Inside, the signal box retains its original levers and machinery. It is listed primarily for its group value.
Local climate
Signal Box sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 710 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 88% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 90% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 36 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 60% of listed buildings. Of these, 17 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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