Signal Box

MATERIALS: Red brick in English bond, some black and yellow brick dressings, slate roof with single brick wall chimney stack.

PLAN: The box has a rectangular plan and is located on the south side of the tracks.

EXTERIOR: Two-storeys and two-bays under a pitched roof with a wall stack rising from the south pitch. The gable heads are part weather boarded with vertical timber panels and have curvilinear traceried bargeboards with finials. The elevation facing the track has black and yellow brick string courses, two recessed window panels at ground-floor level with dogtooth courses above, and a dentillated course beneath the walkway. The panels contain six-over-six-pane horned sashes with four centred arch heads and polychromatic voussoirs. The east side has a similar window panel and the west has a door to the locking room. The top-floor room is accessed via an external C20 flight of steps on the west side through a partly glazed door. At this level, three sides are glazed with horizontal-sliding, triple-light, multi-pane windows with timber glazing bars, divided by narrow wooden stanchions. The upper part of the frame incorporates segmental arches above each window. A planked walkway with iron handrail runs around the three glazed sides.

INTERIOR: The 1925 mechanical signal lever frame, comprising a series of hand-operated levers extending the full length of the box, is in working order, although now supplemented by C21 electronic gear and track display screens.