Marsh Brook Signal Box

MATERIALS: it is of Flemish bond brick with stone dressings and a Welsh slate roof.

PLAN: a LNWR/GWR Type 1 box which is rectangular on plan.

EXTERIOR: the signal box is of two storeys, with a stone string course separating the first floor operating room from the locking room below. The operating room has continuous glazing to the south-west (trackside) elevation and to the front half of the returns; the window openings all with stone surrounds. The trackside fenestration is divided into three sections by stone mullions and contains a central casement window of three-over-three lights flanked by horizontal sliding sashes of eight lights. To the left-hand return there is an horizontal sliding sash of twelve lights. The right-hand return has an horizontal sliding sash of two large lights, to the right of which is an half-glazed door; both being early-C21, 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. An identical window exists in the left-hand return whilst the right-hand return contains a segmental-headed doorway. Above the string course, fixed just below the operating room windows, is a Shrewsbury and Hereford Joint Railway name board reading 'MARSH BROOK'.

INTERIOR: it retains a lever frame of 18 levers, probably installed in the late C19.