Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Ferryside Signal Box
St. Ishmael, Carmarthenshire, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- No class recorded
- Date of designation
- 27 March 2014
- Locality
- Ferryside
- Community
- St. Ishmael
- Unitary authority
- Carmarthenshire
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 51.76823, -4.36973
- Cadw reference
- 87670
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 1636 "Cornubia : Devonia, Somersetus, Dorcestria, Wiltonia, Glocestria ..." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Cadw's description
Location
Near to the centre of the village, on the west side of the crossing at the platfform end of Ferryside station
History
The village of Ferryside developed largely as a seaside resort following the construction of the Swansea-Carmarthen branch of South Wales Railway in the 1850s. The Signal Box was constructed in the 1880s to the designs of a GWR type 3 box and is shown on the 1st Edition Ordnance Suvey map of 1889.
Exterior
Two storey of brick to ground floor, partly pebble dashed and vertical timber boarding to upper floor with continually glazed gallery to trackside elevation of small pane windows, now replaced in uPVC but following the form of the original glazing. Gabled slate roof with eaves brackets and plain bargeboards.
East trackside elevation with original round headed windows with small famed glazing to pebble-dashed lower floor with evidence of a projecting low level canopy over signal wires. 'FERRYSIDE SIGNAL BOX' name plate above and to the upper floor gallery with replaced glazing of a single 12 light window to centre, 9 light (formerley horizontal sliding) sashes to sides. South elevation with cental boarded door to lower floor, feather edge boarding above with two replaced windows offset, fixed to left, former sliding slash to right. Ventilation panel in gable. North elevation has replaced projecting deck and access stair to upper floor with timber handrail, central part glazed door to lever room, fixed (replaced) 12 light window to left and projecting toilet extension to right. Ventilation panel in gable. Plain rear (west) elevation with slight projecting brick stack, reduced to eaves line.
Interior
Upper floor retains operating floor with locking levers, block shelf, bells and track layout plan. Lower floor with 24 lever frame dating from 1898 intact.
Reason for designation
Included for its special architectural interest as a well preserved signal box, the best surviving example of a GWR Type 3 box in the United Kingdom.
Nearby in the register
- Church of St ThomasNo class recordedunder 1 mi
- Robert's RestDomesticunder 1 mi
- Salem Baptist ChapelReligious, Ritual and Funeraryunder 1 mi
- Bethania Welsh Presbyterian ChurchReligious, Ritual and Funeraryunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.