Eastfield Signal Box is a Grade II listed building in the Peterborough local planning authority area, England. First listed on 15 May 1998. Signal box.
Eastfield Signal Box
- WRENN ID
- peeling-panel-nightshade
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Peterborough
- Constituency
- Peterborough MP: Andrew Pakes (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 15 May 1998
- Type
- Signal box
- Address
- Eastfield Signal Box, City of Peterborough
- OS grid reference
- TL 182 998
- Coordinates
- 52.5839, -0.25578
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Eastfield Signal Box is a signal box built in 1894 by the Great Northern Railway. The frame is said to have been replaced in 1940. It features a London stock brick base with a timber upper storey and a slate roof. The base has four bays with small six-pane windows that have segmental heads in the locking room, and the bays are separated by plain pilasters. The upper floor is fully glazed at the front and ends, with sliding timber windows and an external gallery. The rear wall is made of brick and has three small windows. The gabled ends have vertical boarding, fretted bargeboards, and a spike finial. An external timber staircase leads to the entrance doorway and a WC. Inside, there is a 65 lever GNR locking frame that is said to have been installed in the existing box in 1940. This signal box is a GNR Type 1 and is part of the main line's widening, which had been fully block worked since 1873, with interlocking completed on the GNR in 1892.
Local climate
Eastfield 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 89% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 88% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 32 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 60% of listed buildings. Of these, 15 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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