Cuxton Signal Box is a Grade II listed building in the Medway local planning authority area, England. First listed on 29 April 2013. Signal box. 1 related planning application.

Cuxton Signal Box

WRENN ID
tenth-plinth-spindle
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Medway
Constituency
Rochester and Strood MP: Lauren Edwards (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
29 April 2013
Type
Signal box
Address
Cuxton Signal Box, Cuxton Station, Station Road, Rochester, ME2 1AB
OS grid reference
TQ 714 667
Coordinates
51.37362, 0.4615
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Cuxton Signal Box is a two-storey structure, possibly built between 1887 and 1889, designed by and for the South Eastern Railway. The building features a timber frame clad in horizontal weatherboarding and has a hipped slate roof.

On the exterior, the front or north-west elevation has four vertically-sliding sash windows, each with vertical glazing bars and horns. There is one similar window on both the south-west and north-east end elevations. An iron access balcony, supported by cast iron brackets, is located beneath the windows. Access to the operating room is provided by a flight of wooden steps at the north-east end, leading through a later weatherboarded porch. A plain access door beneath the porch leads to the locking room.

Inside, the signal box has a boarded ceiling and walls. It contains equipment such as a South Eastern Railway 7-inch Brady Lever Frame, possibly from 1892, which originally had 29 levers, though some have been removed. Additional train control instruments include a bell for the up line, a commutator, and a track indicator. A porch was added in the 20th century, but it is not considered of special interest.

Local climate

Cuxton 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 84% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 74% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 23 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 76% of listed buildings. Of these, 11 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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