Cattle Tunnel 170 Metres North West of Vale Royal Railway Viaduct is a Grade II listed building in the Cheshire West and Chester local planning authority area, England. First listed on 18 July 1986. Cattle tunnel. 1 related planning application.
Cattle Tunnel 170 Metres North West of Vale Royal Railway Viaduct
- WRENN ID
- salt-casement-hemlock
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cheshire West and Chester
- Constituency
- Mid Cheshire MP: Andrew Cooper (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 18 July 1986
- Type
- Cattle tunnel
- OS grid reference
- SJ 641 707
- Coordinates
- 53.23273, -2.53869
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The cattle tunnel, located 170 meters north-west of the Vale Royal Railway Viaduct, was constructed in 1837 by George Stephenson and Joseph Locke for Lord Delamere. It is built from blue brick in an English garden wall bond. The entrance features a semi-circular arch that is approximately 3 meters wide and 2.5 bricks thick, leading into a barrel-vaulted tunnel that extends 40 meters through the embankment. At both ends of the tunnel, there are large stone keyblocks with the Delamere arms carved into them. The structure includes flat stone coping on a low parapet and on revetment walls that descend to the ground. Historical records from Henrietta Cholmondeley's notebook indicate that George Stephenson visited her father, Lord Delamere, in 1837, suggesting that this tunnel may have been constructed as a concession for the railway, as the viaduct only provided space for the carriage drive.
Local climate
Cattle Tunnel 170 Metres North West of Vale Royal Railway Viaduct receives an average of 930 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 71% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 58% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 38 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 72% of listed buildings. Of these, 20 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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