Snodland Signal Box

DATE: probably built in the 1870s designed by and for the South Eastern Railway Company.

MATERIALS: constructed of timber, clad in weatherboarding on a concrete plinth with hipped slate roof.

EXTERIOR: two storeys, but the locking floor is very low. There are two pairs of sash windows with vertical glazing bars and horns to the front or east elevation and two single sashes on the end elevations. An iron access balcony is supported on brackets below the windows. Access into the operating room is via a wooden staircase on the north side and through a half-glazed door. Attached to the western part of the north side is a lengthy mid-C20 single-storey extension of corrugated iron or asbestos with a pitched felt roof and continuous glazing, clad in weatherboarding at the north end. This later addition is not of special interest.

INTERIOR: the operating room has a boarded ceiling and walls. Some original block instruments survive, such as bells, repeater and commutator but the lever frame was replaced by a panel in 2005 (which is not of special interest).

This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 02/02/2017