Bury St Edmunds Yard Signal Box is a Grade II listed building in the West Suffolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 16 May 2013. Signal box.
Bury St Edmunds Yard Signal Box
- WRENN ID
- ragged-foundation-heath
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- West Suffolk
- Constituency
- Bury St Edmunds and Stowmarket MP: Dr Peter Prinsley (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 16 May 2013
- Type
- Signal box
- Address
- Bury St Edmunds Yard Signal Box, Bury St Edmunds Railway Station
- OS grid reference
- TL 850 651
- Coordinates
- 52.2537, 0.70902
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Bury St Edmunds Yard Signal Box, built in 1888 for the Great Eastern Railway, features timber construction with a red brick south-west corner and a slate-clad roof. It is situated to the west of the station, on the south side of the railway tracks, and has a rectangular plan.
The signal box is taller than average and spans five bays. It has a pitched roof with bargeboards that have decorative scalloped moulding. The exterior is clad in vertical timber, set in panels formed by the building's framework, and is painted in cream and green, reflecting the colours of the Great Eastern Railway. Large horizontally sliding, nine-pane sash windows are present on three sides, with additional windows at either end of the rear (south) side. The front (north) side features three ten-light windows with timber glazing bars that light 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 timber steps on the east side, leading through a timber door with glazed upper panels.
Inside, the original 1888 McKenzie & Holland lever frame remains in place. Although a false ceiling has been added, the original timber-clad ceiling is still intact.
Local climate
Bury St Edmunds Yard 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 88% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 93% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 33 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 54% of listed buildings. Of these, 17 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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