Ferryside Signal Box is a Grade II listed building in the Carmarthenshire local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 27 March 2014. Signal box.
Ferryside Signal Box
- WRENN ID
- young-rafter-winter
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Carmarthenshire
- Constituency
- Llanelli MP: Dame Nia Griffith (Lab)
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 27 March 2014
- Type
- Signal box
- Address
- Ferryside Signal Box, St. Ishmael
- OS grid reference
- SN 365 103
- Coordinates
- 51.76823, -4.36975
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
Ferryside Signal Box is a two-storey structure with a brick ground floor, partly pebble dashed, and an upper floor featuring vertical timber boarding. The trackside elevation has a continually glazed gallery with small pane windows, which have been replaced with uPVC but maintain the original form. The building has a gabled slate roof with eaves brackets and plain bargeboards.
On the east trackside elevation, there are original round-headed windows with small framed glazing on the pebble-dashed lower floor, showing signs of a projecting low-level canopy over the signal wires. The name plate 'FERRYSIDE SIGNAL BOX' is positioned above the upper floor gallery, which has a replaced single 12-light window in the center and 9-light sashes on either side that were formerly horizontal sliding. The south elevation features a central boarded door on the lower floor, with feather edge boarding above and two replaced windows offset, a fixed window to the left, and a former sliding sash to the right. There is a ventilation panel in the gable. The north elevation includes a replaced projecting deck and access stair to the upper floor with a timber handrail, a central part-glazed door leading to the lever room, a fixed (replaced) 12-light window to the left, and a projecting toilet extension to the right, along with a ventilation panel in the gable. The plain rear (west) elevation has a slightly projecting brick stack reduced to the eaves line.
Inside, the upper floor retains the operating floor with locking levers, a block shelf, bells, and a track layout plan. The lower floor houses a 24-lever frame that dates from 1898 and remains intact.
Local climate
Ferryside Signal Box sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,290 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 94% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 96% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 18 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 82% of listed buildings. Of these, 7 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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