East Portal of Farnley Scar Tunnel is a Grade II listed building in the Northumberland local planning authority area, England. First listed on 24 May 1988. Portal.

East Portal of Farnley Scar Tunnel

WRENN ID
tattered-grate-furze
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Northumberland
Constituency
Hexham MP: Joe Morris (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
24 May 1988
Type
Portal
Address
East Portal of Farnley Scar Tunnel, Corbridge
OS grid reference
NZ 001 631
Coordinates
54.9632, -1.99938
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The east portal of Farnley Scar Tunnel is a railway tunnel portal that opened in 1834 for the Newcastle-Carlisle line, designed by engineer Francis Giles. It is constructed from squared stone with tooled and margined dressings, featuring a brick soffit. The portal has a round arch with a flat-coped wall above, and the flanking wing walls also have similar coping.

Farnley Scar Tunnel, which is 170 yards long, was one of two tunnels on the Newcastle-Carlisle line, recognized as the earliest cross-country railway in the world. Although the tunnel was bypassed by an adjacent cutting in the later 19th century, it remains in good condition.

Local climate

East Portal of Farnley Scar Tunnel receives an average of 890 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 66% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 93% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 47 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 89% of listed buildings. Of these, 28 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.

Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.

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