Description

CREDITON

SX8399 STATION ROAD
672-1/4/156 Signal box west of Crediton Station
24/08/89 Main Range

GV II

Railway signal box. Probably circa 1862 for the LSWR.Upper
storey timber-frame, clad with weatherboarding, ground floor
red brick laid in English bond; low-pitched hipped slate roof
with lead rolls to hips and short ridge; red brick lateral
stack.
Exterior: 2 storeys. Flight of timber steps on the east side
lead up to a projecting timber-framed porch on posts with
4-pane fixed windows on the east and south sides, the frame
clad with vertical boarding. The box has a tier of 4 over
4-pane windows below the eaves. Stack has shaft with moulded
cornice; rear (north) right single-storey outhut.
Interior: Not inspected.
Historical Note: The complicated early history of the line,
which began in 1838, led to its being known as 'The Vicar of
Bray Railway', but eventually the Crediton and Exeter Railway
(Act of 1845) was leased to the Bristol and Exeter Railway who
converted to broad guage and opened on 12 May 1851, until the
LSWR took over in 1862 (St John Thomas, pp.92-96).
An attractive C19 signal box, described as "typical of early
designs by the L.S.W.R."(Pevsner).One of a good group of
railway buildings of mixed dates at Crediton station.
(A Regional History of the Railways of Great Britain: St John
Thomas, David,: The West Country: PP.92-96; The Buildings of
England: Pevsner, N., & Cherry, B.,: Devon: London: P.300).

Listing NGR: SX8389499502

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26580544

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Recommended Books

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  Lancashire: Manchester and the South-East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  The Listed Buildings and Other Principal Structures at the Royal Gunpowder Mills Waltham Abbey
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  [(Bedfordshire, Huntingdon and Peterborough)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1968)
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  Northamptonshire: Buildings of England Series (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Yorkshire: York and the East Riding (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Development and Design of Heritage Sensitive Sites: Strategies for Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas