St Bees Signal Box

St Bees Signal Box is a railway signal box built in 1891 for the Furness Railway, possibly designed by Paley and Austin of Lancaster. It follows the Furness Railway Type 3 design.

The building is constructed of red sandstone and features a slate roof. It is a two-storey structure with a steeply pitched hipped roof. The base is made of stone with snecked stonework that gently tapers up to the window sill of the operating floor. The rear wall has a central projecting chimney stack that reaches full height, which is quoined with grey sandstone and supported by three corbels. The ground floor, known as the locking room, is lit by lancet windows at both the front and rear, along with a larger window at the north end. These windows are currently boarded but originally featured a large lower pane with four square panes arranged above. Access to the upper floor, or operating room, is from the southern end via a modern porch at the top of an external staircase. The operating room has windows on all sides, with a continuous row of seven windows facing east towards the tracks and six narrower windows overlooking the crossing to the north. Originally, these windows had plate glass lower sections with four small panes above, but they have since been replaced with uPVC and undivided top-lights.

Inside, the signal box retains its original lever frame, which consists of 24 levers supplied by the Railway Signal Company.