Aberthaw Signal Box

Red brick base with a timber framed upper storey and a Welsh slate roof. The ground floor locking room has three arched windows with glazing bars while the first floor is glazed in four sections with small panes over larger ones. Door to locking room and timber stair to gabled porch entry to the box on left hand gable end. The window returns on the right hand gable. Rear wall blind. Roof with plain bargeboards and spike finials. The signal box stands on what was the platform of Aberthaw (Barry or High Level) station, closed in 1964.

Interior not available at resurvey. It is understood to contain a lever frame of 53 levers which was installed in 1962, but not all of these levers will now be in use.