Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Signal Box at Tintern Station
Wye Valley, Monmouthshire, Wales
A Grade II listed building in Tintern Parva, Chepstow, Wye Valley, Monmouthshire, designated on 29 September 2000.
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Transport
- Date of designation
- 29 September 2000
- Locality
- Tintern Parva
- Town
- Chepstow
- Community
- Wye Valley
- Unitary authority
- Monmouthshire
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 51.70269, -2.67088
- Cadw reference
- 24042
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries
5 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1636 map "Cornubia : Devonia, Somersetus, Dorcestria, Wiltonia, Glocestria ..." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1636 · Cornubia : Devonia, Somersetus, Dorcestria, Wiltonia, Glocestria ... (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1830 · V.3:11-15:XV.Britisches Reich. A. Kon: England. a. England ab sich: Shire:15-17, 33 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1895 · Sheet 11. Ordnance Survey of England and Wales. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1897 · 250 Chepstow (Outline) (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1905 · 250 Chepstow (Hills) (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
Cadw's description
Location
On a meadow at a loop of the river Wye to N of Tintern Abbey.
History
A signal box dating probably from 1908 when the Wye Valley Railway was taken over by the Great Western Railway.
Exterior
A standard McKenzie and Holland design with a stone base for the locking room, a timber framed upper floor fully glazed on three sides and with a Welsh slate roof. Nine 6-pane windows to the front and six to the sides, part is the door on one end. Sliding casements. Gables with horizontal boarding, plain bargeboards and spike finials.
Interior
The box is now a schoolroom for the station visitor centre. It was closed in 1960 and the 25 lever McKenzie and Holland frame was removed soon afterwards.
Reason for designation
Included as an externally unaltered early C20 railway signal box, and for its group value with the other buildings at Tintern station.
Nearby in the register
- Name Board at Tintern StationTransportunder 1 mi
- Tintern StationTransportunder 1 mi
- Water Tank at Tintern StationWater Supply and Drainageunder 1 mi
- Railway Signal Post at Tintern StationTransportunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.