Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Aberthaw Signal Box
Rhoose, Vale of Glamorgan, Wales
A Grade II listed building in East Aberthaw, Barry, Rhoose, Vale of Glamorgan, designated on 30 September 2004.
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Transport
- Date of designation
- 30 September 2004
- Locality
- East Aberthaw
- Town
- Barry
- Community
- Rhoose
- Unitary authority
- Vale of Glamorgan
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 51.38926, -3.38808
- Cadw reference
- 83145
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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)
- 1637 · The fourth table of England. Cornub. Devonia, Somerset etc. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1858 · 20. Bridgewater. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1865 · England and Wales. England No. 6. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1895 · Sheet 11. Ordnance Survey of England and Wales. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
Cadw's description
Location
Standing on the platform of the demolished Aberthaw High Level station about 100m to the west of Station Terrace in East Aberthaw.
History
Opened in 1897 as a part of the Vale of Glamorgan Railway from Barry to Bridgend, and this was incorporated into the Great Western Railway at the 1923 Grouping. This structure is a Barry Railway Type 2 signal box, a type individual to the Vale of Glamorgan Railway, and now one of only two of its kind surviving and in use. [The other example is the Operators Cabin of 1889 at the Sliding Bridge, Barry Docks.] It still works the junctions and sidings for Aberthaw Cementworks and Aberthaw power station.
Exterior
Red brick base with a timber framed upper storey and a Welsh slate roof. The ground floor locking room has three arched windows with glazing bars while the first floor is glazed in four sections with small panes over larger ones. Door to locking room and timber stair to gabled porch entry to the box on left hand gable end. The window returns on the right hand gable. Rear wall blind. Roof with plain bargeboards and spike finials. The signal box stands on what was the platform of Aberthaw (Barry or High Level) station, closed in 1964.
Interior
Interior not available at resurvey. It is understood to contain a lever frame of 53 levers which was installed in 1962, but not all of these levers will now be in use.
Reason for designation
Included as a complete and working late C19 signal box which is the only example of its kind.
Nearby in the register
- The Blue Anchor Inn PHDomesticunder 1 mi
- The GranaryDomesticunder 1 mi
- Marsh House, with attached garden wallDomesticunder 1 mi
- East Kilns at Aberthaw Lime and Cement WorksIndustrialunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.