Eastfield Signal Box
EASTFIELD SIGNAL BOX
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1119749
- Date first listed:
- 15-May-1998
- List Entry Name:
- Eastfield Signal Box
- Statutory Address:
- EASTFIELD SIGNAL BOX
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1119749
- Date first listed:
- 15-May-1998
- List Entry Name:
- Eastfield Signal Box
- Statutory Address 1:
- EASTFIELD 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:
- EASTFIELD SIGNAL BOX
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- City of Peterborough (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- TL 18272 99881
Details
TL1899 PETERBOROUGH
819/9/10009 Eastfield Signal Box
II
Signal box. Built in 1894 by the Great Northern Railway, frame said to have been replaced in 1940. London stock brick base with a timber upper storey and slate roof. Four bay base with small six pane windows with segmental heads to the locking room. The bays are separated by plain pilasters. Fully glazed upper floor to front and ends, sliding timber windows and external gallery. Brick rear wall with three small windows. Gabled ends with vertical boarding, fretted bargeboards and spike finial. External timber staircase leading to entrance doorway and WC. Interior: has a 65 lever GNR locking frame said to have been installed in the existing box in 1940.
History. This is a GNR Type 1 box said to date from 1894 and therefore a part of the widening of the main line which had been fully block worked since 1873. Interlocking had been completed on the GNR in 1892.
References. The Signalling Study Group, The Signal Box, OPC, 1986, pps. 116-122.
Alan B. Jackson, London Termini, David and Charles/Pan, 1972, pps. 84-86.
Listing NGR: TL1827299881
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 469273
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Jackson, A B, London Termini, (1972), 84-86
The Signalling Study Group, , The Signal Box: A Pictorial History and Guide to Designs, (1986), 116-122
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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