Operator's Cabin to Sliding Bridge is a Grade II listed building in the Vale of Glamorgan local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 13 February 1996. Operator's cabin.

Operator's Cabin to Sliding Bridge

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Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Vale of Glamorgan
Country
Wales
Date first listed
13 February 1996
Type
Operator's cabin
Source
Cadw listing

Description

Operators hut probably contemporary with bridge (1889). In form of standard pattern wooden Barry Railway signal box (believed to be last of its type). Aligned parallel to bridge with gables to E and W. Wooden construction with horizontal boarding, slate roof, but brick basement. Decorative bargeboards, and some panelling to gable ends. E end has wooden steps up to entrance doorway; three windows to each side at operator's level; balconies to 3 sides on iron brackets, metal rails. Ground floor doorway to S, and steps down to basement doorway below this. Attached to box (W), is small wooden hut with vertical boarding, and hipped slate roof, mechanism (hydraulic cylinder?) to interior.

Inside the operator's cabin is the original lever frame mechanism of 7 levers, with further adjacent lever.

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