Signal Box at Horsham Railway Station
SIGNAL BOX AT HORSHAM RAILWAY STATION
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1390051
- Date first listed:
- 16-Apr-2002
- List Entry Name:
- Signal Box at Horsham Railway Station
- Statutory Address:
- SIGNAL BOX AT HORSHAM RAILWAY STATION
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1390051
- Date first listed:
- 16-Apr-2002
- List Entry Name:
- Signal Box at Horsham Railway Station
- Statutory Address 1:
- SIGNAL BOX AT HORSHAM RAILWAY STATION
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 HORSHAM RAILWAY STATION
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- West Sussex
- District:
- Horsham (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Horsham
- National Grid Reference:
- TQ 18012 31288
Details
877/0/10014
Signal Box at Horsham Railway Station
16-APR-02
GV
II
Railway signal box. Circa 1938. International Modern Style type 13 signal box built for the Southern Region. Built of brown brick with flat roof, concrete cornice and canopy to upper floor. This is one of the larger type of signal boxes of two storeys with ground floor housing equipment and staff accommodation and upper floor the operating floor. Upper floor has five timber operating windows on each side with plateglass and rounded corners. Ground floor is much longer and rectangular in shape with moulded concrete cornice and "HORSHAM" in large lettering. Three central windows are tripartite horizontally glazed metal casements. The three right side windows are double metal-framed casements and the left hand side had three similar casement windows but the two nearest the centre have been blocked. Two doors. End has large opening with flat arch.
INTERIOR: Not inspected but internal equipment reputed to be of interest. Signal Boxes of this type had mechanical or power frames.
HISTORY: The first Modern Movement Southern Region signal boxes were at Millbrook and Southampton Central in 1935 but these were rectangular in shape. The first type 13 design was built at Surbiton in 1936. By 1940 more than a dozen signal boxes had been built to this design. This example is illustrated to represent the type in "The Signal Box" 1985.
["The Signal Box" Signal Box Study group OPC 1985.p199 and Plate345. ]
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 489002
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
The Signalling Study Group, , The Signal Box: A Pictorial History and Guide to Designs, (1986), 199
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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