Bournemouth West Junction Signal Box

MATERIALS: constructed of brick with a timber superstructure under a Welsh slate roof.

DESCRIPTION: tall, narrow signal box with a shallow-pitched, hipped roof which originally had a wooden roof ventilator that has been removed. Brick pilasters divide the ground floor of the front (north) elevation into two bays. Each has a modern uPVC window under a segmental-arched brick head, with a dentil course of bricks above. Set above the ground-floor front windows is a name board reading 'West Junction'. At first floor, both the front and side elevations are fully glazed with top lights, except for the entrance in the east end wall. The windows are uPVC; the pattern of individual lights has been replicated but not those for the glazing bars. An external gantry runs along the north and west sides of the first floor. The doorway to the operating room is set within a projecting porch and is reached by a external timber staircase. There is a further doorway with segmental-arched head to the ground floor of the east elevation.

INTERIOR: the operating room retains a Steven’s frame of 24 levers and has had a control panel installed.