Signal Box at Louth North
SIGNAL BOX AT LOUTH NORTH, KEDDINGTON ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1389137
- Date first listed:
- 18-Jan-2001
- List Entry Name:
- Signal Box at Louth North
- Statutory Address:
- SIGNAL BOX AT LOUTH NORTH, KEDDINGTON ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1389137
- Date first listed:
- 18-Jan-2001
- List Entry Name:
- Signal Box at Louth North
- Statutory Address 1:
- SIGNAL BOX AT LOUTH NORTH, KEDDINGTON 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 AT LOUTH NORTH, KEDDINGTON ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Lincolnshire
- District:
- East Lindsey (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Louth
- National Grid Reference:
- TF3323588134
Details
TF 38 NW
824/3/10012
18-JAN-01
LOUTH
KEDDINGTON ROAD
(Northwest side)
Signal Box at Louth North
II
Railway signal box. 1886 for the Great Northern Railway. Timber framed construction on a red brick base with a Welsh slate roof. The box is of the type known as GNR1(East Lincs). The locking room has three windows with 2 over 2 pane sashes with stone heads and cills. The operating room has continuous glazing to the trackside with four 3-light windows, each light being 4 x 2 panes, the central one in each window slides. Timber mullions between the windows and thinner ones between the lights. The gable end has one 3-light window; one light being a part glazed door at one end, timber staircase. The gable is filled with vertical boarding, single light window, bargeboards with three characteristic piercings, spike finial. Rear elevation not seen but has at least two windows and a truncated brick stack.
Interior: This has a lever frame in situ, also a plain fireplace surround on the rear wall.
History: The line between Grimsby and Boston was built by the East Lincolnshire Railway and opened in 1848, but it was worked from the start by the GNR and was their first line. It was never taken over by the GNR and remained independent until Grouping in 1923 when it became a part of the LNER. It was, however, block signalled by the GNR in the 1880s with this box being built in 1886. It remained operational until 1980.
Reference: Michael Vanns, Signal Boxes, Ian Allan, 1997, PPS 99-100.
The Signalling Study Group, The Signal Box, OPC, 1986, p 18.
Listing NGR: TF3323588134
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 486731
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Vanns, M, Signal Boxes, (1997), 99-100
The Signalling Study Group, , The Signal Box: A Pictorial History and Guide to Designs, (1986), 18
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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