Signal Box at Abergele and Pensarn Railway Station is a Grade II listed building in the Conwy local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 5 August 1997. Post box. 2 related planning applications.

Signal Box at Abergele and Pensarn Railway Station

WRENN ID
pitched-pediment-wax
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Conwy
Constituency
Clwyd North MP: Gill German (Lab)
Country
Wales
Date first listed
5 August 1997
Type
Post box
Address
Signal Box at Abergele and Pensarn Railway Station, LL22 7SD
OS grid reference
SH 946 787
Coordinates
53.29514, -3.58142
Source
Cadw listing

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Description

The Signal Box at Abergele and Pensarn Railway Station is a timber-framed structure built on a high red brick basement plinth. It features five small iron-framed windows on each side. The box has seven bays of alternating sliding and fixed windows that overlook the railway tracks, with two bays at one end and one bay at the other end. Below the windows, there is a bracketed walkway for cleaning. The exterior is clad in weatherboarding between the windows and at the eaves, with both gable ends also finished in weatherboarding. The roof is pitched and covered with slate, topped with terminal finials. At the western end, a straight flight ladder with a handrail provides access to a half-glazed door. There are iron-framed boxes at ground level, which are mostly blocked, allowing the lever rods to connect to the longitudinal signalling rods laid between the tracks.

Inside, the box contains a 60 lever frame of Tumbler type, although many of the levers are no longer in use.

Local climate

Signal Box at Abergele and Pensarn Railway Station sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 980 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 78% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 59% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 20 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 79% of listed buildings. Of these, 10 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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