Weaverthorpe Signal Box is a Grade II listed building in the North Yorkshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 14 December 1987. Signal box.
Weaverthorpe Signal Box
- WRENN ID
- nether-quoin-laurel
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- North Yorkshire
- Constituency
- Thirsk and Malton MP: Kevin Hollinrake (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 14 December 1987
- Type
- Signal box
- Address
- Weaverthorpe Signal Box, Sherburn to Brompton Road
- OS grid reference
- SE 956 781
- Coordinates
- 54.19021, -0.53515
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Weaverthorpe Signal Box is a signal box and weighbridge office built around 1900 for the North-Eastern Railway. It is constructed of red brick in English garden wall bond, with the upper storey rendered. The building features a wooden stairway and a slate roof. It has a rectangular plan, is two storeys high, and has a two-window front on a plinth. The upper storey is supported by clasping pilasters that jet out on stepped corbels.
On the east side, which faces Scarborough, there is a board door to the left of a 12-pane sash window with a stone sill and cambered arch. The first floor has a 2-light, 18-pane horizontal-sliding sash window. The right end has a stack at the base of the pitched roof.
The west side, facing York, has an external stair leading to the signal box door, located to the left of a 2-light horizontal-sliding sash window. Beneath the stairs is a round-headed radial-glazed window with a stone sill.
The south side, which faces the railway line, features two 2-light horizontal-sliding sash windows with stone sills. It has a saw-toothed raised brick eaves band in the barge-boarded gable end, topped with a finial.
On the north side, which faces the yard, there is a 20-pane sash window with an opening pay-window on the ground floor and a round-headed radial-glazed window on the first floor, both with stone sills. The gable detailing on this side mirrors that of the south side but lacks the original finial. The signal box is still in operation and is noted for its group value.
Local climate
Weaverthorpe Signal Box receives an average of 800 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 53% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 57% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 19 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 79% of listed buildings. Of these, 12 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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