Severn Bridge Junction Signal Box at SJ 496 126
SEVERN BRIDGE JUNCTION SIGNAL BOX AT SJ 496 126
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1271480
- Date first listed:
- 23-Jan-1991
- List Entry Name:
- Severn Bridge Junction Signal Box at SJ 496 126
- Statutory Address:
- SEVERN BRIDGE JUNCTION SIGNAL BOX AT SJ 496 126
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1271480
- Date first listed:
- 23-Jan-1991
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 17-Nov-1995
- List Entry Name:
- Severn Bridge Junction Signal Box at SJ 496 126
- Statutory Address 1:
- SEVERN BRIDGE JUNCTION SIGNAL BOX AT SJ 496 126
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:
- SEVERN BRIDGE JUNCTION SIGNAL BOX AT SJ 496 126
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Shropshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Shrewsbury
- National Grid Reference:
- SJ 49697 12678
Details
SHREWSBURY
SJ4912NE Severn Bridge Junction Signal Box at 653-1/12/4 SJ 496 126 23/01/91 (Formerly Listed as: Severn Bridge Junction Box)
GV II
Signal box, LNWR type 4. 1903. For The London and North Western and Great Western Railway Joint Committee. Brick with glazed timber upper storey; gabled Welsh slate roof. Narrow rectangular plan. 3 storeys. 6-bay range housing locking room with interlocking frame, and operating floor above. Blocked ground-floor windows and small segmental-arched one-light first-floor windows set in recessed panels with dentilled cornicing; brackets to walkway set around cabin of operating floor, which has horizontally sliding sashes. Gable end entry. INTERIOR: interlocking frame of 180 levers, of London and North Western Railway design, and block instruments on shelf. Part of an outstanding group of buildings including Shrewsbury Railway Station (qv) and Crewe Junction Signal Box (qv), built as part of a single improvement scheme for Shrewsbury Station.
Listing NGR: SJ4960012600
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 454643
- 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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