Cuxton Signal Box

DATE: possibly 1887-9, designed by and for the South Eastern Railway. Porch added in C20 (not of special interest).

MATERIALS: timber-framed, clad in horizontal weatherboarding with hipped slate roof.

EXTERIOR: two storeys with four vertically-sliding sash windows with vertical glazing bars and horns to the front or north-west elevation and one similar on the south-west and north-east end elevations. There is an iron access balcony supported on cast iron brackets underneath the windows. Access to the operating room is via a flight of wooden steps at the north-east end and through a later weatherboarded porch. A plain access door located under the porch gives access to the locking room.

INTERIOR: includes a boarded ceiling and walls. Equipment includes a South Eastern Railway 7'' Brady Lever Frame possibly of 1892, originally with 29 levers (some now removed) and some train control instruments including the bell for the up line, a commutator and a track indicator.