Signal Box is a Grade II listed building in the Exeter local planning authority area, England. First listed on 15 February 1988. A Victorian Signal box.
Signal Box
- WRENN ID
- twisted-ledge-dew
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Exeter
- Constituency
- Exmouth and Exeter East MP: David Reed (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 15 February 1988
- Type
- Signal box
- Period
- Victorian
- Address
- Signal Box, Station Road
- OS grid reference
- SX 966 884
- Coordinates
- 50.6861, -3.46441
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The signal box, built around 1870 for the Exeter-Exmouth line, is a modified type 1 design by the London and South Western Railway. It also serves the level crossing gates. The lower half of the structure features English bond brickwork, while the upper half is covered with horizontal boarding. The roof is hipped and made of Welsh slate with lead dressings.
On the side facing the railway, there is a plain brick base with a continuous window above, which consists of all paned wood. The two outer sections are horizontal sash windows, and the center section is fixed, with a small vent in the roof slope. The return to Station Road has a 9:9:6-pane fixed window. The left return features a central door that is accessed by a wooden stair and a protective wooden porch, flanked by fixed lights.
At the back, there is a central eaves stack externally, with small lights in the brickwork below a 6-pane window to the left, and horizontal boarding. The original Stevens lever frame is still in place. The signal box is grouped with the station building located about 35 meters to the south.
Local climate
Signal Box receives an average of 840 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 57% 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 19 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 80% of listed buildings. Of these, 7 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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