Signal Box at Langollen railway Station is a Grade II listed building in the Denbighshire local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 22 December 1989. Signal box.

Signal Box at Langollen railway Station

WRENN ID
distant-chimney-willow
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Denbighshire
Constituency
Clwyd East MP: Becky Gittins (Lab)
Country
Wales
Date first listed
22 December 1989
Type
Signal box
Address
Signal Box at Langollen railway Station, Llangollen
OS grid reference
SJ 214 422
Coordinates
52.97142, -3.17108
Source
Cadw listing

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Description

The Signal Box at Llangollen railway station is a low structure made of red brick, featuring a hipped slate roof and designed as a Great Western Railway type 7a box. It has blue brick dressings that include quoins, a plinth, and window surrounds. The building is characterized by wide bracket eaves, a red brick chimney stack, and finials at both ends. The south side has windows that extend the full length and wrap around the corners at either end. There are three camber-headed basement windows, and timber steps are located at the right end.

Local climate

Signal Box at Langollen railway Station receives an average of 920 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 70% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 73% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 48 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 89% of listed buildings. Of these, 28 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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