Signal Box West of Crediton Station Main Range is a Grade II listed building in the Mid Devon local planning authority area, England. First listed on 24 August 1989. Signal box.
Signal Box West of Crediton Station Main Range
- WRENN ID
- eternal-threshold-russet
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Mid Devon
- Constituency
- Central Devon MP: Sir Mel Stride (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 24 August 1989
- Type
- Signal box
- Address
- Signal Box West of Crediton Station Main Range, Station Road
- OS grid reference
- SX 838 995
- Coordinates
- 50.78342, -3.64837
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
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.
Local climate
Signal Box West of Crediton Station Main Range receives an average of 880 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 65% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 67% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 25 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 73% 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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