Entrance to Sough Railway Tunnel is a Grade II listed building in the Blackburn with Darwen local planning authority area, England. Tunnel entrance.
Entrance to Sough Railway Tunnel
- WRENN ID
- swift-steeple-oak
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Blackburn with Darwen
- Constituency
- Rossendale and Darwen MP: Andy MacNae (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Type
- Tunnel entrance
- OS grid reference
- SD 707 208
- Coordinates
- 53.68304, -2.44467
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The entrance to the Sough Railway Tunnel, part of the Blackburn, Darwen and Bolton Railway, was built between 1847 and 1848 under the supervision of Resident Engineer Terence Flanagan. The structure is made of rock-faced gritstone and is designed in a medieval style. It features a horseshoe-shaped arch adorned with rusticated voussoirs and a battlemented parapet, which includes a machicolated turret corbelled on each side of the tunnel entrance.
Local climate
Entrance to Sough Railway Tunnel sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,200 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 91% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 86% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 51 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 93% of listed buildings. Of these, 29 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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