Platform Signal Box at Holmwood Station
PLATFORM SIGNAL BOX AT HOLMWOOD STATION, HOLMWOOD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1376781
- Date first listed:
- 13-Feb-1998
- List Entry Name:
- Platform Signal Box at Holmwood Station
- Statutory Address:
- PLATFORM SIGNAL BOX AT HOLMWOOD STATION, HOLMWOOD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1376781
- Date first listed:
- 13-Feb-1998
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 26-Mar-1998
- List Entry Name:
- Platform Signal Box at Holmwood Station
- Statutory Address 1:
- PLATFORM SIGNAL BOX AT HOLMWOOD STATION, HOLMWOOD
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:
- PLATFORM SIGNAL BOX AT HOLMWOOD STATION, HOLMWOOD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Surrey
- District:
- Mole Valley (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Capel
- National Grid Reference:
- TQ 17419 43737
Details
TQ 14 SE CAPEL NORTH HOLMWOOD
1896/8/10010 Platform Signal Box at
North Holmwood Station
II
Railway signal box. Circa 1876. Type 5 signal box design of 1876 by Saxby and Farmer for the London, Brighton and South Coast Railway; contemporary S and F Rocker lever frame. Plinth of red brick in Flemish bond supports framed construction of 2 x 2 bays; 4-pane side-sliding sash windows, the upper lights with curved heads; deep panelled frieze; bracket with faceted finials support boxed eaves and oversailing, hipped, Welsh slate roof with central ridge vent. Entrance in north-east side. Interior: original levers, telegraph block instruments and brass-cased signal and track circuit repeaters by the W R Sykes interlocking signal company. Locking room below.
An early and complete example of the Saxby and Farmer Type 5 signal box with the original lever frame intact.
[See "The Signal Box" by The Signalling Study Group, 1986.]
Listing NGR: TQ1741943737
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 469067
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
The Signalling Study Group, , The Signal Box: A Pictorial History and Guide to Designs, (1986)
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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