Falsgrave Signal Box

FALSGRAVE SIGNAL BOX, WESTBOROUGH

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1243660
Date first listed:
19-Mar-1986
List Entry Name:
Falsgrave Signal Box
Statutory Address:
FALSGRAVE SIGNAL BOX, WESTBOROUGH
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1243660
Date first listed:
19-Mar-1986
Date of most recent amendment:
13-Nov-1990
List Entry Name:
Falsgrave Signal Box
Statutory Address 1:
FALSGRAVE SIGNAL BOX, WESTBOROUGH

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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

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.

Understanding list entries

Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:
FALSGRAVE SIGNAL BOX, WESTBOROUGH

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

District:
North Yorkshire (Unitary Authority)
Parish:
Scarborough
National Grid Reference:
TA 03682 87943

Details

FALSGRAVE ROAD 1. 5341 Signal Box and Signal Gantry at Falsgrave TA 0387 5/325

The address shall be amended to read:

1. WESTBOROUGH 5341 (south side)

TA 0387 5/325 Falsgrave Signal Box

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and the description shall be amended to read:

2. Signal box, North Eastern Railway Southern Division Type 4, 1908. Stretcher bond brick supporting glazed upper storey with wooden boarded gable ends and slate roof. 7 bay basement with 9-pane sashes to railway. Signal box above reached by attached wooden external staircase to door in gable end. Interior retains lever frame of 120 levers, as originally installed.

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FALSGRAVE ROAD 1. 5341 Signal box and signal gantry at Falsgrave TA 0387 5/325

II.

2. Railway Signal Box and Signal Gantry. Gantry attached to signal box extends across railway tracks. Signal Box pre 1923, North Eastern Railway. Stretcher bond brick supporting glazed upper storey with wooden boarded gable ends and slate roof. 7 bay basement with 9-pane sashes to railway. Signal box above reached by attached wooden staircase to door in gable end. Signal gantry of lattice cast iron c 1930 LNER origin. 4 square signal posts and two round, supporting a total of 10 semaphore signals. Illustrated in "Steam Railway Magazine" October, 1984.

Listing NGR: TA0368287943

Legacy

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

Legacy System number:
447780
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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