Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Signal Box at Langollen railway Station
Llangollen, Denbighshire, Wales
A Grade II listed building in Llangollen, Denbighshire, designated on 22 December 1989.
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Transport
- Date of designation
- 22 December 1989
- Community
- Llangollen
- Unitary authority
- Denbighshire
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 52.97141, -3.17108
- Cadw reference
- 1084
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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5 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1795 map "To Sir Watkin Williams-Wynn Bart ... the map of the six counties of North Wales is most humbly inscribed by his obedient humble servant" (Llyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru – The National Library of Wales).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1795 · To Sir Watkin Williams-Wynn Bart ... the map of the six counties of North Wales is most… (Llyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru – The National Library of Wales)
- 1883 · Watershed map England, Wales 3. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1898 · 121 Wrexham (Hills) (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1898 · 121 Wrexham (Outline) (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1901 · Sheet 9 and 10. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
Cadw's description
Location
Immediately to SE of the railway station main building.
History
Built in 1898 at the time when the station was remodelled contemporary with the doubling of the track.
Exterior
Low red brick structure with hipped slate roof - G W R type 7a box. Blue brick dressings including quoins, plinth and window surrounds; wide bracket eaves, red brick chimney stack and finials to ends.
Windows run the full length of the S side and return around the corners to either end. 3 camber headed basement windows. Timber steps to the right end.
Reason for designation
Group value with Llangollen Station and other related items.
Nearby in the register
- Railway Station (Main Building & Footbridge)Transportunder 1 mi
- Embankment Wall to Railway (including below Station)Transportunder 1 mi
- Lamp Standard (at the Y junction of Green Lane and Abbey Road)Gardens, Parks and Urban Spacesunder 1 mi
- Dee BankDomesticunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.