Gorse Hill Bridges Signal Box
GORSE HILL BRIDGES SIGNAL BOX, TADPOLE LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1023159
- Date first listed:
- 17-Apr-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Gorse Hill Bridges Signal Box
- Statutory Address:
- GORSE HILL BRIDGES SIGNAL BOX, TADPOLE LANE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1023159
- Date first listed:
- 17-Apr-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Gorse Hill Bridges Signal Box
- Statutory Address 1:
- GORSE HILL BRIDGES SIGNAL BOX, TADPOLE LANE
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
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.
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
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.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- GORSE HILL BRIDGES SIGNAL BOX, TADPOLE LANE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Wiltshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Purton
- National Grid Reference:
- SU1095389764
Details
SU 18 NW
9/273
PURTON,
TADPOLE LANE,
Gorse Hill Bridges Signal Box
(Formerly listed under BLUNSDEN ROAD)
II
Signal box. c.1870 by Saxby and Farmer for the Great Western Railway Co (Broad Gauge). Timber framing and weatherboarding, originally zinc roof, now (June 1985) undergoing restoration. Original studding with grooved weatherboarding and original roofline. Temporary base, and original brick stack removed and boarded over as later GWR modification, as is external stair and 5-light sliding sashes. Interior has a Great Western 5-bar vertical frame and instrument shelf by Saxby and Farmer. Listed as an example of a signal box built for the new semaphore signalling system introduced c.1870 with modifications carried out by the Company up to 1913. Removed from Gorse Hill, Swindon, and re-erected on this site.
Listing NGR: SU1095389764
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 317922
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
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