Railway Signal Box at Kirkham Abbey Station is a Grade II listed building in the North Yorkshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 4 October 1988. Signal box.
Railway Signal Box at Kirkham Abbey Station
- WRENN ID
- fading-gallery-reed
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- North Yorkshire
- Constituency
- Thirsk and Malton MP: Kevin Hollinrake (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 4 October 1988
- Type
- Signal box
- Address
- Railway Signal Box at Kirkham Abbey Station, Blue Hill, Whitwell-On-The-Hill
- OS grid reference
- SE 733 657
- Coordinates
- 54.0823, -0.88091
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Railway Signal Box at Kirkham Abbey Station is a signal box built around 1856 for the York and North Midland Railway, likely designed by G. T. Andrews. It is constructed of red brick with slate roofs. The ground floor features two round-headed windows with glazing bars on the north-east front. Above, a first-floor ashlar bond supports an iron-bracketed balcony that wraps around three sides of the building, accessible via a set of external wooden steps. The north-east front has two large sliding sash windows with glazing bars, while each side wall has a single similar window; the south-east side also includes a door. The rear front has a projecting central stack, flanked by single round-headed windows with glazing bars.
Local climate
Railway Signal Box at Kirkham Abbey Station receives an average of 790 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 59% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 85% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 46 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 87% of listed buildings. Of these, 25 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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