Instow Signal Box
INSTOW SIGNAL BOX
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1107599
- Date first listed:
- 23-Oct-1978
- List Entry Name:
- Instow Signal Box
- Statutory Address:
- INSTOW SIGNAL BOX
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- Date:
- 2003-08-14
- Reference:
- IOE01/11046/24
- Rights:
- © Dr Ann Allen. Source: Historic England Archive
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1107599
- Date first listed:
- 23-Oct-1978
- List Entry Name:
- Instow Signal Box
- Statutory Address 1:
- INSTOW SIGNAL BOX
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:
- INSTOW SIGNAL BOX
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Devon
- District:
- North Devon (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Instow
- National Grid Reference:
- SS 47361 30117
Details
INSTOW THE QUAY SS 43 SE 1/88 Instow Signal Box 23.10.78 GV II Railway signal box. 1861. Stone rubble with weatherboarded upper storey. Hipped slate roof. Lateral brick stack with offsets to rear. Rectangular on plan. 2 storeys. Upper storey has twin 16-paned horizontal sliding sashes to front, 12- paned horizontal sliding sash at right end, two 6-paned windows to rear and external wooden staircase to first floor doorway at left end with 4-panelled door, the upper panels glazed. Plank door to ground floor below. Much of the machinery still intact, fitted with a frame of 16 levers by Stevens and Co. The box was closed in 1979. Built for the Bideford Extension Railway (opened 1855) later London and South Western Railway.
Listing NGR: SS4736130117
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 98792
- 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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