The Signal Box at Plumpton Railway Station is a Grade II listed building in the Lewes local planning authority area, England. Signal box.
The Signal Box at Plumpton Railway Station
- WRENN ID
- pale-balcony-sage
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Lewes
- Constituency
- Lewes MP: James MacCleary (LD)
- Country
- England
- Type
- Signal box
- OS grid reference
- TQ 365 160
- Coordinates
- 50.92812, -0.05881
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Signal Box at Plumpton Railway Station is a Grade II listed building, contemporary with the railway station itself. It is a well-preserved example of a small signal box from the mid-19th century, featuring two storeys constructed of red brick. The building has an eaves bracket cornice and a hipped slate roof topped with a central finial. On the first floor, there are horizontally-sliding sash windows, with three facing north and south and two facing east and west.
Local climate
The Signal Box at Plumpton Railway Station receives an average of 840 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 56% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 89% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 15 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 85% of listed buildings. Of these, 7 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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