Survey Data
Reg No
15500036
Rating
Regional
Categories of Special Interest
Architectural, Technical
Previous Name
Wexford North Railway Station
Original Use
Signal box
Date
1890 - 1895
Coordinates
304581, 122432
Date Recorded
23/06/2005
Date Updated
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Description
Freestanding single-bay single-stage over raised base signal box, commissioned 1894, on a rectangular plan. Decommissioned, 1982. Now disused. Pitched slate roof with lichen-spotted terracotta ridge tiles, timber bargeboards to gables on timber purlins with timber finials to apexes, and no rainwater goods surviving on timber eaves boards on exposed timber rafters. Timber boarded walls in timber frame on red brick Running bond base. Remodelled square-headed "monitor window" with applied louvered timber fittings. Set in grounds shared with O'Hanrahan Railway Station.
Appraisal
A "Type 3" signal box supplied (1894) by McKenzie and Holland (established 1862) of Worchester contributing positively to the group and setting values of the O'Hanrahan Railway Station complex.