Wateringbury Signal Box

DATE: built in 1893, a Saxby and Farmer Type 12 design built for the Maidstone to Paddock Wood branch of the South Eastern Railway which was opened in 1844.

MATERIALS: locking floor of brick. The operating room is timber framed and clad in weatherboarding with a gabled slate roof.

EXTERIOR: two storeys with four windows facing the line and three windows or two windows and a door at the ends. The roof has overhanging eaves and carved wooden bargeboards. The windows each have four panes and there is an iron access balcony. The door to the operating room has been replaced but the door to the locking room is original and the locking room window survives. The brick steps to the operating room were added in the 1950s and are not of special interest.

INTERIOR: the operating room has an inserted ceiling and a panel (not of special interest) was added in the 1990s. However, the walls are boarded and 9 levers of a 26 lever frame of 1888 Duplex type survive together with a number of block instruments including a computator and bell.