Marsh Brook Signal Box is a Grade II listed building in the Shropshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 30 April 2013. Signal box. 1 related planning application.
Marsh Brook Signal Box
- WRENN ID
- hallowed-zinc-autumn
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Shropshire
- Constituency
- South Shropshire MP: Stuart Anderson (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 30 April 2013
- Type
- Signal box
- Address
- Marsh Brook Signal Box, SY6 6QG
- OS grid reference
- SO 441 898
- Coordinates
- 52.50384, -2.82353
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Marsh Brook Signal Box is a Grade II listed building constructed in Flemish bond brick with stone dressings and a Welsh slate roof. It is a rectangular structure designed as a LNWR/GWR Type 1 box and consists of two storeys.
The exterior features a stone string course that separates the first-floor operating room from the locking room below. The operating room has continuous glazing on the south-west (trackside) elevation and the front half of the returns, with all window openings framed in stone. The trackside windows are divided into three sections by stone mullions, featuring a central casement window with three-over-three lights, flanked by horizontal sliding sashes with eight lights. The left-hand return has a horizontal sliding sash with twelve lights, while the right-hand return includes a horizontal sliding sash with two large lights next to a half-glazed door, both of which are early 21st-century uPVC replacements. Access to the operating floor is via a short flight of wooden steps. The south-west elevation of the locking room has two segmental-headed windows with cross casements, and an identical window is found in the left-hand return. The right-hand return contains a segmental-headed doorway. Above the string course, just below the operating room windows, is a name board from the Shrewsbury and Hereford Joint Railway that reads 'MARSH BROOK'.
Inside, the signal box retains a lever frame with 18 levers, likely installed in the late 19th century.
Local climate
Marsh Brook Signal Box receives an average of 810 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 51% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 64% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 45 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 87% of listed buildings. Of these, 25 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
- Sale history — 2 transactions since 2002
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- 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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