APPLEBY SIGNAL BOX APPROXIMATELY 10 METRES NORTH WEST OF LEVEL CROSSING

APPLEBY SIGNAL BOX APPROXIMATELY 10 METRES NORTH WEST OF LEVEL CROSSING, ERMINE STREET

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1161513
Date first listed:: 06-Jan-1987
List Entry Name:: APPLEBY SIGNAL BOX APPROXIMATELY 10 METRES NORTH WEST OF LEVEL CROSSING
Statutory Address:: APPLEBY SIGNAL BOX APPROXIMATELY 10 METRES NORTH WEST OF LEVEL CROSSING, ERMINE STREET

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1161513
Date first listed:: 06-Jan-1987
Date of most recent amendment:: 18-May-1987
List Entry Name:: APPLEBY SIGNAL BOX APPROXIMATELY 10 METRES NORTH WEST OF LEVEL CROSSING
Statutory Address 1:: APPLEBY SIGNAL BOX APPROXIMATELY 10 METRES NORTH WEST OF LEVEL CROSSING, ERMINE STREET

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

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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:: APPLEBY SIGNAL BOX APPROXIMATELY 10 METRES NORTH WEST OF LEVEL CROSSING, ERMINE STREET

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

District:: North Lincolnshire (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Appleby
National Grid Reference:: SE 95226 12871

Details

SE 91 SE APPLEBY ERMINE STREET (west side)

4/15 Appleby Signal Box approximately 10 metres north-east of level crossing II

The address shall be amended to read:- SE 91 SE APPLEBY ERMINE STREET (west side)

4/15 Appleby Signal Box approximately 10 metres north-west of level crossing

II

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SE 91 SE APPLEBY ERMINE STREET (west side) 4/15 Signal Box Appleby Signal Box approximately 10 metres north-east of level crossing II Railway signal box. Late C19 for Manchester, Sheffield and Lincolnshire Railway Company by the Railway Signal Company of Fazakerley, Liverpool. Timber frame, weatherboarded; Welsh slate roof. Cast-iron lever frame. Rectangular on plan. Entrances to left return (west side). South front, facing railway: 2 storeys, 2 bays. Ground floor: two 2-pane casements with sills. First floor: plank walkway on cast-iron brackets, iron handrail beneath full-width window with a central 24-pane window flanked by 4-pane sliding sashes to each end. Cast-iron gutter. Swept roof with ornate bargeboards and wooden finials. Iron stovepipe chimney to rear. Left return: board door to right; wooden staircase with plain treads, newel and handrail, rising to landing on right supported on cast-iron brackets, with enclosed lean-to porch, outer glazed door and half-glazed inner door. First floor: hinged plank walkway on brackets beneath full-width window with glazing bars incorporating sliding sashes similar to front; 4-pane attic casement. Right return has similar plank walkway, first-floor and attic windows; original nameboard with raised lettering APPLEBY LINCS. Rear has 4-pane casement to left, overlooking road. Interior contains original 23- lever frame bearing manufacturer's name, operated from first floor. Mechanism for operating level crossing gates for London and North Eastern Railway by the Westinghouse Brake and Signal Company has hand-wheel inscribed LNER 1942. Included (together with the nearby Elsham Signal Box approximately 5 miles south-east) as a representative example of the standard design of signal box (used 1881-1923) of the most successful signalling firm of the later pre-grouping period.

Listing NGR: SE9522612871

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Legacy System:: LBS

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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.