Signal Box Approximately 150 Metres East of Hertford East Station
SIGNAL BOX APPROXIMATELY 150 METRES EAST OF HERTFORD EAST STATION, RAILWAY STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1268761
- Date first listed:
- 09-Sept-1996
- List Entry Name:
- Signal Box Approximately 150 Metres East of Hertford East Station
- Statutory Address:
- SIGNAL BOX APPROXIMATELY 150 METRES EAST OF HERTFORD EAST STATION, RAILWAY STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1268761
- Date first listed:
- 09-Sept-1996
- List Entry Name:
- Signal Box Approximately 150 Metres East of Hertford East Station
- Statutory Address 1:
- SIGNAL BOX APPROXIMATELY 150 METRES EAST OF HERTFORD EAST STATION, RAILWAY 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:
- SIGNAL BOX APPROXIMATELY 150 METRES EAST OF HERTFORD EAST STATION, RAILWAY STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Hertfordshire
- District:
- East Hertfordshire (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Hertford
- National Grid Reference:
- TL 33227 13021
Details
HERTFORD
TL3313SW RAILWAY STREET
817-1/6/119 (North side)
Signal Box approx 150m east of
Hertford East Station
GV II
Signal box. 1888. Timber-framed and weatherboarded, with
gabled Welsh slated roof with brick chimney on north-east
corner. Built by the Great Eastern Railway, this was a typical
example of their standard design introduced in the 1880s, 11ft
4in wide and 26ft long.
EXTERIOR: 2 storey. First floor; 6 bays of 9-pane windows, 2
module return glazed ends, door in west flank elevation
approached by external timber staircase and balcony. Ground
floor weatherboard clad with 2 coupled 10-pane horizontally
proportioned windows on ground floor.
INTERIOR: not inspected.
HISTORICAL NOTE: The Great Eastern line was run into Hertford
East in 1888 from its 1843 Eastern Counties Railway terminal
on Railway Street. The box originally contained 36 levers (34
working, 2 spare) but was expanded to 45 levers when the
contemporary Hertford Junction Box, which controlled the Great
Northern line to Cowbridge was closed in 1930s (now
demolished).
(Dent D: 150 Years of the Hertford and Ware Railway: Ware:
1993-: 86-7).
Listing NGR: TL3322713021
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 461476
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Dent, D, 150 Years of the Hertford and Ware Railway, (1993), 86-87
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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