Crewe Junction Signal Box at SJ 4936 1306
CREWE JUNCTION SIGNAL BOX AT SJ 4936 1306, CROSS STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1247161
- Date first listed:
- 19-Sept-1972
- List Entry Name:
- Crewe Junction Signal Box at SJ 4936 1306
- Statutory Address:
- CREWE JUNCTION SIGNAL BOX AT SJ 4936 1306, CROSS STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1247161
- Date first listed:
- 19-Sept-1972
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 17-Nov-1995
- List Entry Name:
- Crewe Junction Signal Box at SJ 4936 1306
- Statutory Address 1:
- CREWE JUNCTION SIGNAL BOX AT SJ 4936 1306, CROSS STREET
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:
- CREWE JUNCTION SIGNAL BOX AT SJ 4936 1306, CROSS STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Shropshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Shrewsbury
- National Grid Reference:
- SJ4936813070
Details
SHREWSBURY
SJ4913SW CROSS STREET
653-1/9/262 (North side (off))
23/01/91 Crewe Junction Signal Box at SJ 4936
1306
(Formerly Listed as:
CROSS STREET
Crewe Junction Signal Box)
GV II
Signal box. 1902-3. For London and North Western and Great
Western Railway Joint Committee. Brick with weatherboarded top
storey and slate roof. 4 storeys, comprising locking room with
interlocking in lower storeys, operating floor above. 6-window
range of small casements to 1st and 2nd floors, various doors
to ground floor and two 3-light casements to top floor, facing
track. Full-length range of horizontal sliding sash windows to
operating floor, with doorway up flight of steps. Full length
projecting gangway which is repeated on the gable ends as are
the windows. Inside is a 120-lever interlocking frame with
associated block shelves and working instruments.
Part of an outstanding group of buildings including Shrewsbury
Railway Station (qv) and Severn Bridge Junction Signal Box
(qv), built as part of a single improvement scheme for
Shrewsbury Station.
Listing NGR: SJ4936813070
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 456427
- 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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