Lewes Signal Box

Lewes Signal Box is a Type 5 signal box built in 1888 for the London, Brighton and South Coast Railway company at Lewes Station, designed by Saxby and Farmer.

It is constructed of London stock brick in a Flemish bond with a timber superstructure, topped by a Welsh slate roof. The signal box is tall and narrow, featuring a shallow-pitched, hipped roof with a broad overhang supported by curved timber brackets. The front (northern) elevation has brick pilasters that divide the ground floor into four bays, each with a bricked-up former window aperture beneath a red-brick, segmental arch. There is also a doorway with a matching red-brick, segmental arch on the eastern elevation. The lower southern and western elevations are blind, with the southern elevation divided by brick pilasters and accented by a red-brick string course.

On the first floor, both the front and side elevations are fully glazed with timber multi-paned horizontally sliding sash windows. The separate top lights have rounded ends, and the western elevation features a five-paned glazed door with timber panelling below. This doorway leads to the operating room and is accessed from a cross-braced timber open landing, reached by an external timber staircase with metal treads. A shallow external metal gantry runs along the northern and eastern sides of the first floor. The rear (southern) elevation is blind, and at the western end, there is a weather-boarded timber outshut at first floor level, supported by an open timber frame, which includes a small casement window on both the western and eastern elevations.

Inside, the operating room is equipped with late-20th-century signalling equipment, and the outshut contains a late-20th-century toilet.