Signal Box West of Crediton Station Main Range
SIGNAL BOX WEST OF CREDITON STATION MAIN RANGE, STATION ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1292537
- Date first listed:
- 24-Aug-1989
- List Entry Name:
- Signal Box West of Crediton Station Main Range
- Statutory Address:
- SIGNAL BOX WEST OF CREDITON STATION MAIN RANGE, STATION ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1292537
- Date first listed:
- 24-Aug-1989
- List Entry Name:
- Signal Box West of Crediton Station Main Range
- Statutory Address 1:
- SIGNAL BOX WEST OF CREDITON STATION MAIN RANGE, STATION ROAD
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 WEST OF CREDITON STATION MAIN RANGE, STATION ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Devon
- District:
- Mid Devon (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Crediton
- National Grid Reference:
- SX 83894 99502
Details
CREDITON
SX8399 STATION ROAD 672-1/4/156 Signal box west of Crediton Station 24/08/89 Main Range
GV II
Railway signal box. Probably circa 1862 for the LSWR.Upper storey timber-frame, clad with weatherboarding, ground floor red brick laid in English bond; low-pitched hipped slate roof with lead rolls to hips and short ridge; red brick lateral stack. Exterior: 2 storeys. Flight of timber steps on the east side lead up to a projecting timber-framed porch on posts with 4-pane fixed windows on the east and south sides, the frame clad with vertical boarding. The box has a tier of 4 over 4-pane windows below the eaves. Stack has shaft with moulded cornice; rear (north) right single-storey outhut. Interior: Not inspected. Historical Note: The complicated early history of the line, which began in 1838, led to its being known as 'The Vicar of Bray Railway', but eventually the Crediton and Exeter Railway (Act of 1845) was leased to the Bristol and Exeter Railway who converted to broad guage and opened on 12 May 1851, until the LSWR took over in 1862 (St John Thomas, pp.92-96). An attractive C19 signal box, described as "typical of early designs by the L.S.W.R."(Pevsner).One of a good group of railway buildings of mixed dates at Crediton station. (A Regional History of the Railways of Great Britain: St John Thomas, David,: The West Country: PP.92-96; The Buildings of England: Pevsner, N., & Cherry, B.,: Devon: London: P.300).
Listing NGR: SX8389499502
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 387107
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Pevsner, N, Cherry, B, The Buildings of England: Devon, (1989), 300
Thomas, D, A Regional History of The Railways of Great Britain in The West Country, (), 92-6
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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