Wolferton Station Signal Box is a Grade II* listed building in the King0s Lynn and West Norfolk local planning authority area, England. A Victorian Signal box.
Wolferton Station Signal Box
- WRENN ID
- mired-glass-plover
- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- King0s Lynn and West Norfolk
- Constituency
- North West Norfolk MP: James Wild (Con)
- Country
- England
- Type
- Signal box
- Address
- Wolferton Station Signal Box, Sandringham, King's Lynn and West Norfolk
- OS grid reference
- TF 660 285
- Coordinates
- 52.82855, 0.46249
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
A railway signal box, dating from 1862, was repositioned in 1898 and is constructed of carstone and brick with a renewed tiled roof. The primary facade faces the railway line and features a ground floor of small carstone with brick dressings, containing four narrow windows with four panes each, and a narrow foot platform above. The first floor is almost entirely glazed, divided into five sections, each with six larger lower panes and twelve smaller upper panes. Decorative fretwork adorns the eaves. The left return has a ground floor that mirrors the front, with two windows and two glazed panels on the first floor, and a gable featuring fishscale tiles and pierced fretwork barge boards. The right return is similar, incorporating a door to the left of the ground floor and two windows, as well as central closed-string steps leading to a wooden balcony on the first floor, with a partially glazed door to the right. The interior retains its original signalling equipment. In 1898, track widening necessitated the signal box's relocation and attachment to a pair of existing estate cottages.
Attached to the signal box on the left is a pair of cottages, likely constructed around 1870, of carstone and half-timbered design with a pantile roof finished with cockscomb ridge tiles and dormers. The four-bay cottages have a carstone ground floor with brick dressings and a brick plinth. Each cottage has a central doorway with boarded doors and decorative strap hinges, topped by a gabled porch with a hipped roof of plain tiles and fretwork arch. Two-light casements with transoms flank the doorways on either side. The first floor is jettied on shaped brackets, with half-timbered rendered panels and four gabled dormers, each containing a two-light casement. Axial stacks of linked lozenge shafts are centrally positioned to the left and right. The right return features a jettied first floor and a large window on the ground floor.
Local climate
Wolferton Station Signal Box receives an average of 780 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 60% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 57% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 17 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 83% of listed buildings. Of these, 9 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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