Plate Layers Hut, About 26 Metres South of Williton Signal Box is a Grade II listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 21 December 1984. Utility building.

Plate Layers Hut, About 26 Metres South of Williton Signal Box

WRENN ID
outer-mantel-myrtle
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Somerset
Constituency
Tiverton and Minehead MP: Rachel Gilmour (LD)
Country
England
Date first listed
21 December 1984
Type
Utility building
OS grid reference
ST 085 415
Coordinates
51.16559, -3.30906
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Plate Layers Hut, located about 26 metres south of Williton Signal Box, was built in 1862. It is constructed from squared and coursed red sandstone and features a slate roof with a tall stone stack at the rear. The hut consists of two cells and is a single-storey structure. It has two plank doors on the front, with the left room containing a decorative hob grate set in the angle of the wall. This building is part of an unusually complete set of railway station buildings that retain their original fittings.

Local climate

Plate Layers Hut, About 26 Metres South of Williton Signal Box receives an average of 940 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 71% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 79% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 20 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 79% of listed buildings. Of these, 8 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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