Survey Data
Reg No
15304022
Rating
Regional
Categories of Special Interest
Architectural, Technical
Original Use
Signal box
In Use As
Signal box
Date
1910 - 1930
Coordinates
239026, 263077
Date Recorded
30/07/2004
Date Updated
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Description
Detached two-bay two-storey railway signal box, built c.1920 to replace earlier signal box to site c.1880. Pitched natural slate roof with wide overhanging eaves with decorative timber brackets, timber ball finials to gable. Single brick chimneystack to west pitch. Red-brick walls to ground floor level over chamfered brick plinth, timber-sheeted above to first floor. Square-headed window openings to ground floor with two-over-two pane timber sliding sash windows, four-over-four pane horizontal sliding sashes windows above to first floor. Square-headed doorcase on first floor of south elevation reached by external metal stairs. Interior retains original cast-iron levers and machinery. Located to north of Multyfarnham Railway Station (15404025).
Appraisal
An attractive and well preserved signal box that retains its early form and character. It forms part of an attractive and important group of railway structures within the Multyfarnham Railway Station complex. This signal box was built to the Midland and Great Western Railway Company's own design in the early 1920s. It probably replaced and earlier signal box that was damaged or destroyed during the Irish Civil War (1922-23), one of many to suffer a similar faith at the time. The signaling equipment to the interior was probably designed by Webb-Thompson instruments and manufactured under licence by the Railway Signal Company in Liverpool as is found at other stations on the same line, most notably at the signal box at Edgeworthstown, Co. Longford.