Signal Box at Knaresborough Station
SIGNAL BOX AT KNARESBOROUGH STATION
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1248970
- Date first listed:
- 12-Mar-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Signal Box at Knaresborough Station
- Statutory Address:
- SIGNAL BOX AT KNARESBOROUGH STATION
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1248970
- Date first listed:
- 12-Mar-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Signal Box at Knaresborough Station
- Statutory Address 1:
- SIGNAL BOX AT KNARESBOROUGH STATION
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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.
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:
- SIGNAL BOX AT KNARESBOROUGH STATION
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- North Yorkshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Knaresborough
- National Grid Reference:
- SE 34774 57103
Details
SE 3457 SE 35NW KNARESBOROUGH KNARESBOROUGH
Signal box at Knaresborough 6/801 Station
GV II
Signal box. 1872 (Kaye), upper-floor rebuilt probably 1890. Coursed squared gritstone, ashlar quoins to ground floor, grey slate roof. Built up against east wall of no 53 Kirkgate (qv) with canted east end. 2 storeys, 1 bay. Plinth. South (entrance) facade: probable door to lower chamber; straight flight of C20 wooden steps to glazed 1st-floor door with side-sliding sash window to left. Oversailing eaves with bracketed wooden cornice Hipped roof with short ridge stack. North front (to Kirkgate): round-headed sash with glazing bars, ashlar sill and keystone; 1st-floor ashlar band; 18-pane side-sliding sash to 1st floor, protected by railing supported on brackets all of cast-iron. East side (towards back): canted, with a 15-pane sash window with chanelled wedge lintel to each face giving a clear view up and down the track. The railway line was in operation in the early 1850s, but major alterations were made to the station area 1864-65, including the construction of the level crossing of which the pedestrian gates are operated from the signal box. A further rebuild of the station in 1890 probably accounts for the difference in style of the ground and 1st floors of the signal box.
B Jennings (ed), A History of Harrogate and Knaresborough (1970), pp 309-10.
Dr Kaye, book on railway signal boxes, forthcoming.
Listing NGR: SE3477457103
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 430811
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Jennings, B, A History of Harrogate and Knaresborough, (1970), 309-10
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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