Signal Box West Of Crediton Station Main Range

The building is a railway signal box, likely constructed around 1862 for the London and South Western Railway (LSWR). It features an upper storey that is timber-framed and clad with weatherboarding, while the ground floor is made of red brick laid in English bond. The roof is low-pitched and hipped, covered with slate and has lead rolls at the hips and a short ridge. There is a red brick lateral stack.

The signal box stands two storeys tall and has a flight of timber steps on the east side that leads up to a projecting timber-framed porch supported by posts. This porch has 4-pane fixed windows on the east and south sides, with the frame clad in vertical boarding. Below the eaves, the box has a tier of 4 over 4-pane windows. The stack features a shaft with a moulded cornice, and there is a single-storey outhut at the rear (north) right side.

The interior has not been inspected. Historically, the line has a complex early history that began in 1838, earning it the nickname 'The Vicar of Bray Railway'. Eventually, the Crediton and Exeter Railway, established by the Act of 1845, was leased to the Bristol and Exeter Railway, which converted it to broad gauge and opened on 12 May 1851, before the LSWR took over in 1862. This signal box is noted as an attractive 19th-century example, described as "typical of early designs by the L.S.W.R." It is part of a good group of railway buildings of mixed dates at Crediton station.