Forden Signal Box is a Grade II listed building in the Powys local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 28 March 2014. Signal box.

Forden Signal Box

WRENN ID
tenth-chapel-ochre
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Powys
Country
Wales
Date first listed
28 March 2014
Type
Signal box
Source
Cadw listing

Description

Brick and timber boarded two storey structure with projecting plinth and glazed gallery of horizontally sliding windows to trackside elevation and gable returns. Continuous dark blue brick string and plinth course banding below gallery. Gabled slate roof with deep eaves, wave pattern barge boards and gable finials.

Main (east) trackside elevation with 2 round headed small pane cast iron windows to brick ground floor with stone cills at plinth level and banding to window heads continual with string course. Glazed gallery above of 4 sliding cross windows. North elevation with projecting timber first floor with single window and open to left with timber steps and handrails. Continuation of galley behind with part glazed panelled door to the right. North elevation with return of galley with two sliding and one fixed window. Rear (west) elevation of plain banded brick with projecting boarded upper floor to the left.

Both floors converted, locking room below now workshop, lever room above retains timber floor with division for former lever frame.

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