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
1515
Building Number
 
Grade
II  
Status
Designated  
Date of Designation
07/08/1990  
Date of Amendment
14/02/1994  
Name of Property
Rhyl No.1 Signal Box  
Address
 

Location


Unitary Authority
Denbighshire  
Community
Rhyl  
Town
 
Locality
 
Easting
301123  
Northing
381361  
Street Side
 
Location
Sited approximately 100 metres to E of the long up-platform at Rhyl Railway Station; set back slightly from the trackside with large yard to the rear reached from Morley Road.  

Description


Broad Class
Transport  
Period
 

History
Dateable to c1900, when major improvements to the main lines and goods yards were completed by LNWR. Rhyl No 1 is of Saxby and Farmer LNW box type 4, and of similar, though smaller design, to that of Rhyl No 2.  

Exterior
Tall 3-storey, 4-bay box with slates to gabled roof with flush bargeboards and inset finials set directly over weatherboarding of operating floor. Oversailing eaves to long sides with cantilvered catwalk on metal brackets to trackside. Four-pane timber sliding sashes in continuous band to operating room. Lower storeys of variegated red brickwork with blue brick sill bands and paired cambered headed windows in 2-storey panels with header corbels. Top storey of rear elevation has 2 short sections of cantilevered walkways to windows and cantilevered cubicle to W gable end with vertical ladder and boarded door. Lever frames removed.  

Interior
 

Reason for designation
One of an impressive pair of signal boxes flanking the station.  

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