Brundall Signal Box is a Grade II listed building in the Broadland local planning authority area, England. First listed on 26 April 2013. Signal box. 1 related planning application.
Brundall Signal Box
- WRENN ID
- scattered-kitchen-winter
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Broadland
- Constituency
- Broadland and Fakenham MP: Jerome Mayhew (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 26 April 2013
- Type
- Signal box
- Address
- Brundall Signal Box, Norfolk
- OS grid reference
- TG 330 078
- Coordinates
- 52.6183, 1.44143
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Brundall Signal Box is a signal box built in 1883 for the Great Eastern Railway. It features timber construction and a slate-clad roof. The building is located to the south-east of the station, on the south-west side of the railway tracks, and has a rectangular plan.
The exterior of the signal box includes a pitched roof adorned with ornamental ridge tiles and finials, along with decorative bargeboards, although the bargeboards are missing from the south-east gable. The timber cladding is designed to resemble stone blocks, arranged in panels formed by the building's framework. The rear (south-west) side is finished in plain horizontal timber, likely because it is not visible from the track, and has a small timber-clad projection at the operating room level that was added to provide lavatory facilities. The box is painted in cream and green, reflecting the colours of the Great Eastern Railway. It features large horizontally sliding sash windows on three sides: the windows on the north-east (front) and south-east sides still have their distinctive margin lights, while those on the north-west side have been replaced with six-light sashes. The front elevation includes two large rectangular timber windows with four vertical glazing bars for the locking room. A window cleaning canopy encircles the front and sides of the box, and access to the operating room is provided by a flight of metal steps on the north-west side. The timber door, which has been replaced, features a glazed upper panel.
Inside, the signal box retains its 1927 lever frame. Although a false ceiling has been added, the original timber-clad ceiling remains intact. There are also late 20th-century fitted cupboards and a desk along the south-west wall.
Local climate
Brundall Signal Box sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 720 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 83% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 72% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 19 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 81% of listed buildings. Of these, 10 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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