Overhead Signal Box is a Grade II listed building in the Canterbury local planning authority area, England. First listed on 10 March 1986. Signal box. 3 related planning applications.
Overhead Signal Box
- WRENN ID
- drifting-sentry-claret
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Canterbury
- Constituency
- Canterbury MP: Rosie Duffield (Ind)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 10 March 1986
- Type
- Signal box
- Address
- Overhead Signal Box, Station Road West
- OS grid reference
- TR 146 585
- Coordinates
- 51.28526, 1.07658
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The overhead signal box, built in the late 19th to early 20th century, is located on Station Road West. It features weatherboarding and a slate roof with plain bargeboards. The structure is two storeys tall and consists of five bays. The lower storey of the south-west elevation has two small end windows in each bay, with a ledge above supported by small iron brackets. The main floor contains five horizontally sliding sash windows, each with four panes per half sash, and has overhanging eaves supported by iron brackets. Access to the signal box is provided by open tread steps and a gallery. The signal box is suspended above the railway line, supported by a lattice girder cradle, which is in turn held up by lattice girder posts.
Local climate
Overhead Signal Box sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 700 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 90% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 52% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 14 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 87% 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 3 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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