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
16837
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
13/02/1996
Date of Amendment
13/02/1996
Name of Property
Operator's Cabin to Sliding Bridge
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Vale of Glamorgan
Community
Barry
Town
Locality
Barry Docks
Easting
312267
Northing
167147
Street Side
Location
To SE of bridge.
Description
Broad Class
Transport
Period
History
Exterior
Operators hut probably contemporary with bridge (1889). In form of standard pattern wooden Barry Railway signal box (believed to be last of its type). Aligned parallel to bridge with gables to E and W. Wooden construction with horizontal boarding, slate roof, but brick basement. Decorative bargeboards, and some panelling to gable ends. E end has wooden steps up to entrance doorway; three windows to each side at operator's level; balconies to 3 sides on iron brackets, metal rails. Ground floor doorway to S, and steps down to basement doorway below this. Attached to box (W), is small wooden hut with vertical boarding, and hipped slate roof, mechanism (hydraulic cylinder?) to interior.
Interior
Inside the operator's cabin is the original lever frame mechanism of 7 levers, with further adjacent lever.
Reason for designation
Included as integral part of sliding bridge, and believed to be last surviving example of wooden Barry Railway signal box.
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