Signal Box At Knaresborough Station

SE 3457 SE 35NW KNARESBOROUGH KNARESBOROUGH

Signal box at Knaresborough 6/801 Station

GV II

Signal box. 1872 (Kaye), upper-floor rebuilt probably 1890. Coursed squared gritstone, ashlar quoins to ground floor, grey slate roof. Built up against east wall of no 53 Kirkgate (qv) with canted east end. 2 storeys, 1 bay. Plinth. South (entrance) facade: probable door to lower chamber; straight flight of C20 wooden steps to glazed 1st-floor door with side-sliding sash window to left. Oversailing eaves with bracketed wooden cornice Hipped roof with short ridge stack. North front (to Kirkgate): round-headed sash with glazing bars, ashlar sill and keystone; 1st-floor ashlar band; 18-pane side-sliding sash to 1st floor, protected by railing supported on brackets all of cast-iron. East side (towards back): canted, with a 15-pane sash window with chanelled wedge lintel to each face giving a clear view up and down the track. The railway line was in operation in the early 1850s, but major alterations were made to the station area 1864-65, including the construction of the level crossing of which the pedestrian gates are operated from the signal box. A further rebuild of the station in 1890 probably accounts for the difference in style of the ground and 1st floors of the signal box.

B Jennings (ed), A History of Harrogate and Knaresborough (1970), pp 309-10.

Dr Kaye, book on railway signal boxes, forthcoming.

Listing NGR: SE3477457103