Lostwithiel Signal Box

MATERIALS: it is built of brick with timber weather-boarding under a slate-clad roof.

EXTERIOR: a standard Type 5 design with a two-storey signal box under a shallow-pitched roof with barge-boards and spear-point finials to the gable ends. The first-floor operating room has continuous glazing to the north-west (facing the tracks) with uPVC windows in a similar arrangement to the originals which were arranged as paired horizontal sliding sashes. This glazing pattern continues to the gable ends. The doorway, within a projecting timber porch with a gabled roof, is to the south-east end and is reached by a set of modern wooden steps. The ground-floor locking room is accessed from a semi-sunken doorway in the same gable wall. The lower half of the north-west elevation has three original windows under segmental-arched brick heads. There are three similar ground-floor windows to the opposing (south-east) elevation and two further windows to the first floor.

INTERIOR: it retains a lever frame of 63 levers that was installed in 1923, block instruments, and also has a modern control panel.