Block House to Former Sandford Station is a Grade II listed building in the North Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 21 April 1983. Signal house.
Block House to Former Sandford Station
- WRENN ID
- distant-step-woodpecker
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- North Somerset
- Constituency
- Wells and Mendip Hills MP: Tessa Munt (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 21 April 1983
- Type
- Signal house
- Address
- Block House to Former Sandford Station, Station Road, Winscombe and Sandford
- OS grid reference
- ST 416 595
- Coordinates
- 51.33195, -2.83932
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The block house to the former Sandford Station, built in 1869 by Francis Fox, who was the engineer for the Bristol and Exeter Railway Company, is a Grade II listed structure. It was originally used to house early signalling equipment. The building is constructed of snecked rubble with freestone dressings and features a double Roman clay tile roof. It is a single-storey structure with a pitched roof and gables, and it has a later brick chimney. There is one casement window on the north side, one on the south side, and a plain boarded door on the east side. This building is included in the listing for its group value.
Local climate
Block House to Former Sandford Station receives an average of 840 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 56% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 72% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 27 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 71% of listed buildings. Of these, 10 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°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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