Signal Box Approximately 150 Metres East of Hertford East Station is a Grade II listed building in the East Hertfordshire local planning authority area, England. Signal box. 1 related planning application.
Signal Box Approximately 150 Metres East of Hertford East Station
- WRENN ID
- old-thatch-woodpecker
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- East Hertfordshire
- Constituency
- Hertford and Stortford MP: Josh Dean (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Type
- Signal box
- Address
- Signal Box Approximately 150 Metres East of Hertford East Station, SG14 1SB
- OS grid reference
- TL 332 130
- Coordinates
- 51.79998, -0.06929
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
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.
Local climate
Signal Box Approximately 150 Metres East of Hertford East Station 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 88% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 84% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 33 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 55% of listed buildings. Of these, 16 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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