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SIGNAL BOX AT FORMER BEACH STATION

SIGNAL BOX AT FORMER BEACH STATION, HOLT ROAD

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1380342
Date first listed:: 23-May-2000
List Entry Name:: SIGNAL BOX AT FORMER BEACH STATION
Statutory Address:: SIGNAL BOX AT FORMER BEACH STATION, HOLT ROAD

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1380342
Date first listed:: 23-May-2000
List Entry Name:: SIGNAL BOX AT FORMER BEACH STATION
Statutory Address 1:: SIGNAL BOX AT FORMER BEACH STATION, HOLT ROAD

This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.

For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

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Location

Statutory Address:: SIGNAL BOX AT FORMER BEACH STATION, HOLT ROAD

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

County:: Norfolk
District:: North Norfolk (District Authority)
Parish:: Cromer
National Grid Reference:: TG 21227 42004

Details

CROMER

TG24SW HOLT ROAD 892/2/10005 Signal Box at former Beach Station 24-MAY-00

GV II

Railway signal box. 1920 for the Midland and Great Northern Joint Railway, built by William Marriott, company engineer. Concrete block and gault brick with a Welsh slate roof. Small signal box with a concrete and brick base with two sunk panels facing the track. Single panel in end elevation with a door to the locking room and a window, now blocked with red brick. The upper floor has six windows separated by timber mullions, each window with 3 x 3 panes, some windows slide. The end elevations have two windows as above, the platform elevation also has a part glazed door with a rectangular light over. This is up a flight of timber stairs which leads to a steel balcony leading in front of the windows for cleaning, this is supported on cast brackets. Hipped roof with centre vent and rear stove pipe. Interior (not seen) contains a 35 lever frame dating from 1954 and a traditional pot-bellied stove. History: The line between Melton Constable and Cromer Beach was built by the Eastern and Midland Railway and opened in 1887. This railway failed in 1890 and was bought jointly by the Midland Railway and the Great Northern Railway, thus forming the Midland and Great Northern Joint Railway in 1893. This railway, with 183 miles of track, was the largest of the joint railways and remained independent until 1936 because its parent companies were incorporated into different groupings', LMS and LNER, the LNER finally taking full responsibility in 1936. The M&GNJR had an engineer William Marriott (1884-!924) who took a particular interest in concrete as a building material and many items were manufactured at their works at Melton Constable. Cromer signal box is the last box from this system still working out of an original 90, and the largest surviving of his concrete structures. It was built in 1920 as Cromer Yard and was refitted with the present frame when Cromer High station was closed in 1954 and all the traffic transferred to Cromer Beach. References: Jack Simmons and Gordon Biddle, The Oxford Companion to Railway History, OUP, 1997, p 103 for concrete and p 320 for Midland and Great Northern Joint Railway. Richard Adderson and Graham Kenworthy, Branch Lines around Cromer, Middleton Press, 1998. Michael A.Vanns, Signal Boxes, Ian Allan, 1997, p 113. The Signalling Study Group, The Signal Box, OPC, 1986, pps 123-4.

Listing NGR: TG2123242007

Legacy

The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:: 480344
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Simmons, , Biddle, , The Oxford Companion to British Railway History, (1997), 103, 320
The Signalling Study Group, , The Signal Box: A Pictorial History and Guide to Designs, (1986), 123-124
Vanns, A, The Signal Box: A Pictorial History and Guide to Designs, (1997), 113

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This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.