Bexhill Signal Box, Station Road
| Bexhill Signal Box, Station Road | |
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| LL ref: | 71 |
| Start date: | 1876 |
| Architect: | unknown |
| Builder: | unknown |
| Original use: | Part of railway |
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This signal box pre-dates the Grade II listed Edwardian station buildings by over 25 years and is a good example of a small mid-Victorian London, Brighton & South Coast Railway signal box. It was built in 1876 when the station was located on its original site opened in 1846 to the west of the existing station, fronting Station Road where the present-day Sainsbury's supermarket car park is. The station was then re-sited to the east in 1891 to face Devonshire Square before moving to its present location facing Sea Road in 1902.
It is very similar in design to Berwick Signal Box also in East Sussex built 3 years later in 1879 by the same railway company which was listed Grade II in 2013. It is also of the Saxby and Farmer Type 5 design patented in 1856 but the Bexhill box has retained its timber windows and round arched window openings at the lower level unlike the Berwick one which has PVCu replacements and bricked up lower windows. The Bexhill Signal Box closed in February 2015.
It has an important group value with the already Grade II listed station buildings, it is not known how much of the interior survives.
Another box in Rother district was listed in 2013 at Rye station, this was constructed 20 years later than Bexhill, in 1896.
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