Signal Box, Beside 2 Bushmills Road, Coleraine, Co Londonderry, BT52 2BN

A two-storey signal box aligned N-S along the E side of the double-track railway line at the NE corner of a level crossing immediately north of Coleraine Station. Hipped natural slate roof with deep oversailing boxed eaves and boarded soffits. Plastic rainwater goods. GF and E elevation are of red brick, the latter over a coursed squared basalt rubble base. The brickwork at S and W has slightly recessed panels, and the W elevation also has two segmental headed window opes with 3x1-pane timber frames and concrete cills. Except for E elevation, FF is framed and sheeted with timber. E elevation has 6x2-pane timber framed window at left end. S elevation has a pair of 2x2 horizontal sliding sashes and a 6x2-pane fixed window. W elevation has a 6x2-pane window at left, to right of which is a pair of 3x2 horizontal sliding sashes, then a 4x2 and a 6x2 window, all continuous. Below the windows are painted panels, the one on the W side also carrying lettering reading “Coleraine”. N elevation has a later flat-roofed timber extension at left, on a concrete platform over a red brick base. Its walls are blank save for a 3/3 casement window to E elevation. A steel staircase rises at right on this elevation to a FF door, to right of which is 4x2 window. Flat-headed doorway directly under, to GF. Setting: The signal box sits at the NE corner of the level crossing at the N end of Coleraine Station, which is immediately S of the road. To the immediate E of the box is a house and garden. A double track railway line runs along the W side of the box, beyond which is a small industrial estate. Roof: Hipped natural slate Rainwater goods: Plastic Walls: Brick (GF) and timber (FF) Windows: Fixed timber multi-panes and 2x2 horizontal timber sash