Signal Box Approximately 150 Metres East Of Hertford East Station

The signal box, located approximately 150 meters east of Hertford East Station, was built in 1888. It is timber-framed and weatherboarded, featuring a gabled roof covered with Welsh slate and a brick chimney on the northeast corner. Constructed by the Great Eastern Railway, this building exemplifies their standard design introduced in the 1880s, measuring 11 feet 4 inches wide and 26 feet long.

The signal box is two storeys high. The first floor has six bays of 9-pane windows and two return glazed ends, with a door on the west side accessed by an external timber staircase and balcony. The ground floor is clad in weatherboarding and includes two coupled 10-pane horizontally proportioned windows.

The interior has not been inspected. Historically, the Great Eastern line was extended to Hertford East in 1888, connecting to the earlier Eastern Counties Railway terminal established in 1843 on Railway Street. Initially, the signal box contained 36 levers (34 operational and 2 spare), which were increased to 45 levers when the nearby Hertford Junction Box, which managed the Great Northern line to Cowbridge, was closed in the 1930s and subsequently demolished.