Settle Station Signal Box and adjacent signal and isolated section of track is a Grade II listed building in the North Yorkshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 14 August 2013. Signal box. 16 related planning applications.
Settle Station Signal Box and adjacent signal and isolated section of track
- WRENN ID
- stark-slate-curlew
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- North Yorkshire
- Constituency
- Skipton and Ripon MP: Sir Julian Smith (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 14 August 2013
- Type
- Signal box
- Address
- Settle Station Signal Box and adjacent signal and isolated section of track, Station Road, N Yorks, BD24 9AA
- OS grid reference
- SD 817 634
- Coordinates
- 54.06641, -2.28099
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This railway signal box was built in 1891 by the Midland Railway. It was relocated and restored between 1997 and 1999. The building is constructed of timber with a Welsh slate roof.
The signal box is two bays wide and two storeys high, featuring a shallow-pitched hipped roof. The upper-floor operating room has continuous glazing facing west (towards the tracks) and on its two ends; the rear is solid. A doorway on the north side is accessed via an external timber staircase, which also leads to a balcony-walkway around the front of the box for window cleaning. The ground floor has windows on the ends only. The signal box is in its original, restored condition, with timber, single-glazed windows divided by glazing bars. The upper-floor windows are horizontal sliding sashes. Areas of plain walling are finished with horizontal weather-boarding. The roof retains its turned-timber spike-finials. A modern reproduction name board reading "Settle Station" is fixed to the front.
Inside, the signal box has been fully restored, including a Midland Railway lever frame with 20 levers (interlocking mechanisms housed within the operating room) and Absolute Block Instruments and bells. The ground-floor room retains counterbalances.
Adjacent to the signal box, immediately to the north, is a twin-armed semaphore signal. To the south is a short, isolated section of track with a point blade, track warning detonators, and a ground signal, all connected to levers inside the signal box to allow for demonstrations of its operation.
Local climate
Settle Station Signal Box and adjacent signal and isolated section of track sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,330 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 96% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 94% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 58 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 97% of listed buildings. Of these, 34 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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- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2007
- Related listed building consents — 16 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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