Hensall Signal Box

MATERIALS: brick laid in Flemish bond, Welsh slate roof.

EXTERIOR: small, rectangular signal box with a shallow-pitched, hipped roof. The first floor operating room has continuous glazing to the north (facing the tracks) and to the front half of the western end wall. The windows are uPVC in an altered arrangement to the original windows which were arranged as paired horizontal sliding sashes, each sash having four panes with a fixed top light above. Each of the three pairs of windows to the front now includes one fixed sash and one inward opening casement set above a fixed light, all subdivided with glazing bars. The doorway is to the east end, reached by a modern set of steel steps. Adjacent to the door is a small modern projection for a toilet with a slate roof to match the main roof. The low ceilinged ground-floor locking room retains its pair of original windows facing the tracks, the openings having segmentally arched brick heads embellished with blackened brick headers.

INTERIOR: the signal box retains a reconditioned McKenzie & Holland lever frame of 10 levers installed in 1964 as a set of interlocked electrical switches. These are positioned to the rear of the box so that the operator faces away from the tracks.