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Latitude: 52.4779 / 52°28'40"N
Longitude: -1.9025 / 1°54'8"W
OS Eastings: 406719
OS Northings: 286672
OS Grid: SP067866
Mapcode National: GBR 5Z9.TL
Mapcode Global: VH9YW.ZZ39
Plus Code: 9C4WF3HX+52
Entry Name: Birmingham New Street Signal Box
Listing Date: 24 November 1995
Grade: II
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1117383
English Heritage Legacy ID: 442131
ID on this website: 101117383
Location: Birmingham, West Midlands, B5
County: Birmingham
Parish: Non Civil Parish
Built-Up Area: Birmingham
Traditional County: Warwickshire
Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): West Midlands
Church of England Parish: Cathedral Church of St Philip Birmingham
Church of England Diocese: Birmingham
Tagged with: Signal box
SP 08 NE BIRMINGHAM NAVIGATION STREET
7/10058 Birmingham New Street
Signal Box
II
Includes: Birmingham New Street Signal Box BRUNEL STREET. Railway signal box. 1964. Architects Bicknell and Hamilton in collaboration with R L Moorcraft the Regional Architect, London Midland Region. Horizontal pre-cast concrete cladding units of a bold triangular profile, hung from a reinforced concrete frame. The boundary parapet wall in Navigation Street is constructed from facetted vertical pre-cast concrete units. Continuous metal windows; walls on either side of the entrance doors are finished in vertical glazed tiling. Flat roof. Contains staff and equipment rooms. Five storeys high above railway track level and four storeys above street level with single storey wing at track level. Various floor to floor heights. The signalling control room at top level is surrounded by a projecting flat roof with a deep down-standing fascia to provide shading for the control console. The building is very much a 'one off' constructed on a very difficult and congested site. A dramatic building of exceptional architectural quality with a strongly sculptural form.
Sources: Architectural Review, November 1965
Building, 18 August 1967
Railway Magazine, October 1966, pp.564-7
Listing NGR: SP0671986672
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