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
Country
England
Date first listed
29 April 2013
Type
Signal box
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.

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