Shepherds Well Signal Box

Shepherds Well Signal Box is a signal box built around 1878 for the London Chatham & Dover Railway. The locking room is made of stock brick in Flemish bond, while the operating room is constructed of timber with vertical boarding and a slate roof.

The front, or north-east elevation of the operating room features four horizontally sliding nine-pane sash windows, with two identical windows on each side elevation. An iron inspection balcony surrounds these windows. There is a fixed locking room window on the north-east elevation and a door on the south-west elevation. The gable ends on the north-west and south-east elevations have wooden bargeboards with moulded pendants, trefoil cutouts, and small central vents. Access is provided by an external timber flight of steps on the south-east elevation and a later wooden porch with a 21st-century metal door, although the porch itself is not of special interest. The gable ends of the side elevations also have wooden bargeboards with similar decorative features.

Inside, the walls and roof are horizontally boarded, and there is a shelf on brackets along the south-west wall. The original locking frame with 23 levers remains intact, although the track indicator and train control instruments have been removed.