Description

The following building shall be added;
PRINCES RISBOROUGH
SP 70 SE PRINCES RISBOROUGH
Signal Box
4/189
II

Signal box. Built 1908. Red machine brick with blue brick quoins and
dressings; timber-framed upper floor; hipped slate roof. Rectangular box
with longer side facing the track. Two storeys. Ground floor of 9-window
range with glazing bars to segmental-headed windows. Timber-framed upper
floor is fully glazed on 3 sides, with horizontally-sliding windows.
Bracketed eaves cornice. Open wooden stair on south side. Interior:
originally housed 100 levers and housed the main line and three branch lines
which radiate from Princes Risborough; many of the original levers survive.
The Princes Risborough box is the largest and only unaltered example of a
"Churchward" era GWR design box.

Listing NGR: SP7993202966

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26565923

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Recommended Books

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  Gwent/Monmouthshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of Wales)
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  London 1: The City of London: City of London v. 1 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990: Updated version
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  Wiltshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Worcestershire Revised Edition (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Yorkshire West Riding: Sheffield and the South (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)