Gorse Hill Bridges Signal Box is a Grade II listed building in the Wiltshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 17 April 1986. Signal box.
Gorse Hill Bridges Signal Box
- WRENN ID
- odd-cinder-elder
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Wiltshire
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 17 April 1986
- Type
- Signal box
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
SU 18 NW 9/273
PURTON, TADPOLE LANE, Gorse Hill Bridges Signal Box
(Formerly listed under BLUNSDEN ROAD)
II
Signal box. c.1870 by Saxby and Farmer for the Great Western Railway Co (Broad Gauge). Timber framing and weatherboarding, originally zinc roof, now (June 1985) undergoing restoration. Original studding with grooved weatherboarding and original roofline. Temporary base, and original brick stack removed and boarded over as later GWR modification, as is external stair and 5-light sliding sashes. Interior has a Great Western 5-bar vertical frame and instrument shelf by Saxby and Farmer. Listed as an example of a signal box built for the new semaphore signalling system introduced c.1870 with modifications carried out by the Company up to 1913. Removed from Gorse Hill, Swindon, and re-erected on this site.
Listing NGR: SU1095389764
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