Description

TORQUAY

SX9063 RATHMORE ROAD
885-1/17/3 Signal box at south end of east
01/01/86 platform at Torquay Station

GV II

Railway signal box. 1878, for the Great Western Railway.
Snecked rock-faced grey limestone with probably Bathstone
dressings including quoins, stringcourse, window frames and
chimney stack. Hipped Welsh slate roof with lead rolls to hips
and short ridge which has metal ventilator rather like a
finial. Over the back wall a large ashlar chimney stack.
PLAN: Small building, rectangular on plan.
EXTERIOR: Entrance on north end of the ground storey room;
steps to entrance above, also on north end of the control box
on the first floor which faces the line. The signal box was
originally freestanding, but in the mid 1920s the east
platform of the station was extended southwards enveloping the
base of the signal box. At the front of the first floor and
around the sides the superstructure is timber and fenestrated
with horizontal sliding sashes with glazing bars, and boarded
above, the large stone sill is actually the stringcourse,
which continues around the building. At the north end integral
with the window is a half-glazed double door approached from
C20 timber external stairs which span the wall to the doorway
below. Pair of barred windows with stone frames on the south
side.
HISTORY: The railway line from Newton Abbot to Torquay was
built by the South Devon Railway Company in 1848, but only
reached Torre Station (qv). The line was extended to Paignton
in 1859 when Torquay Station was opened. In 1876 the South
Devon Railway was taken over by the Great Western Railway who
built this station and signal box in 1878.

Listing NGR: SX9058363397

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26512925

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  Warwickshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire, and Peterborough (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Department for Communities Listed Historic Buildings of Northern Ireland: Information Guide for the 2nd Survey of Historic Buildings
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