Par Signal Box is a Grade II listed building in the Cornwall local planning authority area, England. First listed on 30 April 2013. Signal box.
Par Signal Box
- WRENN ID
- plain-steel-martin
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cornwall
- Constituency
- St Austell and Newquay MP: Noah Law (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 30 April 2013
- Type
- Signal box
- OS grid reference
- SX 076 540
- Coordinates
- 50.35497, -4.70484
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Par Signal Box is a 20th-century structure, specifically constructed for railway operations. The ground floor is made of brick, while the upper storey features a timber frame and weatherboarding. The hipped roof is covered with artificial slates.
The building is rectangular and two storeys high, with an operating room on the upper floor and a locking room below. It overlooks railway tracks to both the west and east, and the operating room has continuous glazing on all four sides, except for the west half of the north gable end. The windows are late-20th-century uPVC replacements that mimic the original sliding sash casements and glazing bars. A short flight of wooden steps connects the platform level to the door leading to the operating floor. Both the east and west elevations have recessed, square-headed openings on the ground floor, which still contain their original windows.
Inside, the signal box retains a lever frame with 57 levers, which was installed around 1913, along with a modern control panel that was added in 1986.
Local climate
Par Signal Box sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 990 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 80% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 87% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 10 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 91% of listed buildings. Of these, 4 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.2°C per decade since 1991.
Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.
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