Waverley West Signal Box, Princes Street Gardens is a Grade B listed building in the City of Edinburgh local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 28 June 2013. Signal box.
Waverley West Signal Box, Princes Street Gardens
- WRENN ID
- solitary-postern-moth
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- City of Edinburgh
- Constituency
- Edinburgh East and Musselburgh MP: Chris Murray (Lab)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 28 June 2013
- Type
- Signal box
- OS grid reference
- NT 255 737
- Coordinates
- 55.95098, -3.19416
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Waverley West Signal Box, built in 1936 by the London and North Eastern Railway Company, is a long, symmetrical, two-storey structure with eight bays, featuring a glazed projection for the operation room. It is constructed from reconstituted stone and concrete and is set into the siding wall to the west of Waverley Station.
On the ground level, there are a pair of timber doors in the outer bays, which have roll-moulded surrounds and small window lights on either side, linked by a continuous cill course. The upper level features tripartite windows above the doors, each with an offset recessed detail and a pilastered effect. The central section has a six-bay glazed projection with canted corners, and each bay has a tripartite glazing pattern separated by reconstituted stone mullions. The building has a flat roof covered with felt.
The interior was not seen in 2012, but it originally housed a power frame signalling installation from 1936.
Local climate
Waverley West Signal Box, Princes Street Gardens sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 970 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 76% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 53% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 43 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 81% of listed buildings. Of these, 25 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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