Mostyn No. 1 Signal Box

LNWR type 4 signal box; this example is characteristic of those built between c1880 and 1904 although it is unusually tall. The type 4 boxes have gabled roofs with pendants and finials to each apex over flush-set bargeboards; slate roof (now grouted). The whole of the operating floor is weatherboarded and lit by an almost continuous band of 4-pane sliding sash windows. The glazing on the SW side is divided into five-bays, the 2nd and 4th bays wider. On the NE side the operating floor is cantilevered on brackets and lacks the central window; old photographs show that this side formerly had a narrow bracketed walkway. Sign reading 'Mostyn' to each gable. The entrance is on the SE gable end, offset to the R, the half-glazed door reached by an open timber staircase. Below the operating floor, the structure is of brown brick and each side is 2-storey and 4-window, with 2 tall recessed panels with header brick corbels. Segmental-headed 4-pane windows are set into the panels, that to NE side pierced by higher 1st floor windows. The footbridge has recently been demolished, but the rubble stone base still survives.