Signal Box: Littlehampton

DATE: built in 1886, a London Brighton & South Coast Railway Type 2 signal box. C20 rear lean-to extension and toilet (not of special interest).

MATERIALS: built of brown brick in Flemish bond with hipped slate roof.

PLAN: two storeys, three bays long and two bays wide.

EXTERIOR: the locking room has two cambered openings in the front or south-west front which were later filled-in and a door with four flush panels on the north-west side. The operating room retains the fretted eaves valance supported on fretted wooden eaves brackets and sliding four-pane casement windows with later secondary glazing behind. An iron access balcony remains on the south-east side. Entrance to the operating room is by a wooden staircase on the north-west side which has later been boarded over. C20 toilet extension on the north-west side and the north-east side has a lean-to extension in stretcher bond brick (neither of special interest).

INTERIOR: the operating room retains a 1901 Bosham Pattern LB&SCR lever frame with 44 levers, an emergency bell signal and track indicator. The locking room has a locking frame with bars and locking trays.