Full Report for Listed Buildings


The list description is not intended to be a complete inventory of what is listed: it is principally intended to aid identification. By law, the definition of a listed building includes the entire building (i) and any structure or object that is fixed to the said building and ancillary to it and (ii) any other structure or object that forms part of the land and has done so since before 1 July 1948, and was within the curtilage of the building, and ancillary to it, on the date on which said building was first included in the list, or on 1 January 1969, whichever was later.

Summary Description


Reference Number
1514
Building Number
 
Grade
II  
Status
Designated  
Date of Designation
07/08/1990  
Date of Amendment
14/02/1994  
Name of Property
Rhyl No.2 Signal Box  
Address
 

Location


Unitary Authority
Denbighshire  
Community
Rhyl  
Town
 
Locality
 
Easting
300753  
Northing
381040  
Street Side
S  
Location
Sited at the far W end of the long up (N) platform at Rhyl Railway Station.  

Description


Broad Class
Transport  
Period
 

History
Dated 1884 (prior to major improvements to the main lines and goods yards by LNWR). Rhyl No 2 is of Saxby and Farmer LNW box type 4 and is of the same class and size as the massive Shrewsbury Severn Bridge Junction box built by LNWR in 1903 (now the largest surviving mechanical box on BR).  

Exterior
Long 3-storey 6-bay trackside signal box with tarred slates to gabled roof with flush bargeboards and inset finials set directly over the weatherboarding of operating floor. Oversailing eaves to long sides with cantilevered catwalks on metal brackets returned along gable ends. 4-pane timber sliding sashes in continuous band to operating room. Lower storeys of variegated red brickwork with blue brick sill bands paired camber-headed windows in recessed panels with headed corbels. Similar 4-pane metal-frame windows to plain ground floor. Top storey of rear elevation with cantilevered cubicle to left; metal ladder to narrow W gable end with boarded ground floor door. Lever frames comprising 127 levers visible inside at time of inspection (March 1990).  

Interior
 

Reason for designation
The largest operational signal box of this type and size in North Wales.  

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