Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Pantyffynnon Signal Box
Ammanford, Carmarthenshire, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Transport
- Date of designation
- 10 August 1994
- Community
- Ammanford
- Unitary authority
- Carmarthenshire
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 51.77728, -3.99763
- Cadw reference
- 14813
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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Shown on 5 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1860 "41. Caermathen." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Cadw's description
Location
Situated about 150m S of Pantyfynnon Station and on E side of railway line close to bridge over River Amman. The lines at Pantyffynnon junction merged to N of this signal box, from where railway movements were controlled.
History
The line from Llanelli to Llandeilo was begun in 1835 by the Llanelli Dock and Railway Co., reaching Pontardulais in 1839 and Pantyffynnon in 1840. The Pantyffynnon signal box is of GWR type 5 with a design dating from 1889-92 and is notable for its design variation with gabled external porch-plus-closet supported on a brick pillar.
Exterior
Dark brick to locking room and porch with horizontal weatherboarding plus small-frame glazing to operating room. Gabled slate roofs with bargeboards and finials, ventilators under. Overall glazing to track side with horizontally sliding 3 + 2 pane sashes and short grabrails to outer bays. Name-plate under centre windows. Locking-room with 3x4-pane fixed timber windows and door under open-tread timber stair with handrail leading to cantilevered landing to first-floor porch.
Reason for designation
A well-preserved example of an interesting variant to a standard-design GWR box, sited on the Heart of Wales line in sight of Pantyfynnon Station.
Nearby in the register
- Pantyffynnon StationTransportunder 1 mi
- St David's Parish ChurchReligious, Ritual and Funeraryunder 1 mi
- Bandstand at Ammanford ParkGardens, Parks and Urban Spaces1 mi
- Miners Welfare HallRecreational1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.