Signal Box at Holywell Junction Railway Station is a Grade II listed building in the Flintshire local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 19 August 1991. Signal box.
Signal Box at Holywell Junction Railway Station
- WRENN ID
- tattered-spindle-jay
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Flintshire
- Constituency
- Clwyd East MP: Becky Gittins (Lab)
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 19 August 1991
- Type
- Signal box
- Address
- Signal Box at Holywell Junction Railway Station, Greenfield
- OS grid reference
- SJ 195 780
- Coordinates
- 53.29308, -3.2084
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
The Signal Box at Holywell Junction Railway Station is a Grade II listed building, part of the Chester to Holyhead railway, which aimed to enhance connections between London and Dublin. The railway bill was approved in July 1844, with Robert Stephenson as the engineer and Francis Thompson of Derby as the architect. Holywell station was opened in 1848.
This signal box is an LNWR type 4, produced from around 1880 until 1904, and it is one of the most popular designs of signal box ever made. The building is two storeys high and consists of five bays, topped with a slate roof. The gable ends feature pendants, finials, and flush bargeboards. The entire operating floor is weatherboarded and is illuminated by a continuous band of four-pane sliding sash windows. The long sides have cantilevered walkways supported by metal brackets, which return around the gable ends. There is a timber staircase at the southeast end. The lower storey is constructed of red brick and includes camber-headed four-pane windows and a doorway located beneath the stairs.
Local climate
Signal Box at Holywell Junction Railway Station receives an average of 930 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 79% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 30 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 65% of listed buildings. Of these, 15 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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