Bootle Signal Box is a Grade II listed building in the Lake District National Park local planning authority area, England. First listed on 21 November 2013. Signal box. 1 related planning application.
Bootle Signal Box
- WRENN ID
- gaunt-pavement-tallow
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Lake District National Park
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 21 November 2013
- Type
- Signal box
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Railway signal box, 1874, for the Furness Railway. Furness Railway Type 1 design.
MATERIALS: red sandstone rock-faced ashlar; Welsh slate roof with round ridge tiles to ridge and hips.
EXTERIOR: small, squat signal box of two bays with a low-pitched hipped roof. Raised operating floor accessed via modern external steps to the north side. Front and sides continuously glazed with modern replacement window units with top-lights above. The projecting chimney stack to the centre of the rear has been truncated to just above eaves height.
INTERIOR: the signal box retains a London Midland Region lever frame of 15 levers installed in 1977.
Detailed Attributes
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