Signal Box at Billinghurst Railway Station
Signal Box at Billinghurst Railway Station, Myrtle Lane
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1271531
- Date first listed:
- 06-Oct-2000
- List Entry Name:
- Signal Box at Billinghurst Railway Station
- Statutory Address:
- Signal Box at Billinghurst Railway Station, Myrtle Lane
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1271531
- Date first listed:
- 06-Oct-2000
- List Entry Name:
- Signal Box at Billinghurst Railway Station
- Statutory Address 1:
- Signal Box at Billinghurst Railway Station, Myrtle Lane
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 at Billinghurst Railway Station, Myrtle Lane
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- West Sussex
- District:
- Horsham (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Billingshurst
- National Grid Reference:
- TQ 08782 25109
Details
This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 24 September 2021 to reformat text to current standards
TQ 0825
965/25/10037
BILLINGSHURST
MYRTLE LANE (South,off)
Signal Box at Billinghurst Railway Station
06-OCT-00
GV
II
Signal Box. 1876 for the London, Brighton and South Coast Railway, supplied by Saxby and Farmer. It is an S & F type 1b box. Timber framed with a hipped slate roof. The locking room is clad with horizontal boarding with a large structural post at each corner, two-light window. The upper floor has continuous glazing on the track side apart from a central timber mullion. Centre fixed six-pane windows with an outer four-pane sliding sash on each side. The short side of the box looking on to the road has two four + four sliding sashes with another to the rear. The platform end has a timber stair with a door and window above; the window is obscured by the immediately adjacent footbridge.
The interior contains a 15 lever Saxby & Farmer rocker frame No 2273.
History: This signal box is reliably recorded as having been erected in 1876, but production of the Type 1 box had ceased several years earlier (Type 2 began in 1868), and it may be that this box was re-used from an earlier site. It may thus date from the 1860's and is anyway probably the oldest working signal box with original frame on the British system. It is the only remaining example of the first standard signal box design and comes from the company which first patented the interlocking frame and thus the fully fledged signal box as a building type.
References: The Signalling Study Group, The Signal Box, OPC, p82.Michael A Vanns, Signal boxes, Ian Allan, 1997.
Listing NGR: TQ0878225109
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 487649
- 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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