Signal Box, Kippen Station is a Grade C listed building in the Stirling local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 14 May 1987. 2 related planning applications.
Signal Box, Kippen Station
- WRENN ID
- crooked-timber-wagtail
- Grade
- C
- Local Planning Authority
- Stirling
- Constituency
- Stirling and Strathallan MP: Chris Kane (Lab)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 14 May 1987
- Address
- Signal Box, Kippen Station, FK8 3JA
- OS grid reference
- NS 664 957
- Coordinates
- 56.13529, -4.14985
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
This signal box, built in 1893 by the North British Railway Company, is a two-storey, rectangular building. A brick base supports a raised floor, with six large windows with six panes each facing south. There are three similar windows on the east and west returns, all set in timber frames. The rear wall is also brick, with returns to the east and west. The gables are timber-boarded and the roof is slate. The building retains fragmentary remains of ornate cast-iron brackets that once supported a timber walkway or cill shelf below the operating room.
The interior features timber panelling on the upper floor, and includes an intact fireplace. The original signalling machinery has been removed. Signal boxes are a distinctive, increasingly rare building type which contribute to Scotland's industrial heritage.
This signal box is a non-standard design by the North British Railway Company. It has been out of use since 1959 and retains remnants of an ornate cast-iron bracket around the signal cabin. The signal box is situated in the garden of the former station master’s house.
Local climate
Signal Box, Kippen Station sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,250 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 93% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 74% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 57 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 97% of listed buildings. Of these, 33 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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- Related listed building consents — 2 applications
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- 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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