Weaverthorpe Signal Box

SHERBURN SHERBURN TO BROMPTON ROAD SE 97 NE (east side) 6/72 Weaverthorpe Signal Box GV II Signal box and weighbridge office. c1900 for the North-Eastern Railway. Red brick in English garden wall bond, the upper storey rendered. Wooden stairway; slate roof. Rectangular plan, 2-storey, 2-window front, on plinth, the upper storey with clasping pilasters jettied on stepped corbels. East (Scarborough) side: board door at left of 12-pane sash with stone sill and cambered arch. 2-light, 18-pane horizontal-sliding sash in first floor. Right end stack at base of pitched roof. West (York) side: external stair to signal box door, at left of 2-light horizontal-sliding sash. Round-headed radial-glazed window with stone sill beneath stairs. South (line) side: two 2-light horizontal-sliding sashes with stone sills. Saw- toothed raised brick eaves band in barge-boarded gable end with finial. North (yard) side: 20-pane sash with opening pay-window on ground floor. Round-headed radial-glazed window in first floor. Stone sills to both windows. Gable detailing repeats south side without original finial. Signal box still functions and is included for group value.

Listing NGR: SE9568078149