Rhyl No.2 Signal Box is a Grade II listed building in the Denbighshire local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 7 August 1990. Signal box.
Rhyl No.2 Signal Box
- WRENN ID
- gentle-jade-russet
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Denbighshire
- Constituency
- Clwyd North MP: Gill German (Lab)
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 7 August 1990
- Type
- Signal box
- OS grid reference
- SJ 007 810
- Coordinates
- 53.31697, -3.49126
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
Rhyl No.2 Signal Box is a long, three-storey, six-bay structure located beside the tracks. It features a gabled roof covered with tarred slates, flush bargeboards, and inset finials positioned directly above the weatherboarding of the operating floor. The eaves on the long sides overhang, supported by cantilevered catwalks on metal brackets that extend along the gable ends. The operating room has a continuous band of four-pane timber sliding sash windows.
The lower storeys are constructed of variegated red brickwork, accented with blue brick sill bands and paired camber-headed windows set in recessed panels with headed corbels. The plain ground floor has similar four-pane metal-frame windows. The top storey on the rear elevation includes a cantilevered cubicle on the left side and a metal ladder leading to the narrow west gable end, which has a boarded door on the ground floor.
Inside, a lever frame with 127 levers was visible during the inspection in March 1990.
Local climate
Rhyl No.2 Signal Box 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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