Railway tunnel portal, MVL3/11 Scout Tunnel (south end) is a Grade II listed building in the Tameside local planning authority area, England. First listed on 23 March 2018. Railway portal.
Railway tunnel portal, MVL3/11 Scout Tunnel (south end)
- WRENN ID
- solitary-soffit-hawthorn
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Tameside
- Constituency
- Stalybridge and Hyde MP: Jonathan Reynolds (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 23 March 2018
- Type
- Railway portal
- OS grid reference
- SD 972 012
- Coordinates
- 53.50786, -2.04231
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The railway tunnel portal, built between 1845 and 1849 by AS Jee for the Huddersfield & Manchester Railway, is constructed from buff sandstone. It faces south and is positioned against the hillside, elevated above the road. The design features a single horseshoe arch, which is flanked by polygonal piers with abutments on either side that extend into the steep sides of the cutting.
The arch is composed of alternate giant voussoirs arranged within a two-coursed ring, with walls made of regular-coursed quarry-faced stone. A prominent giant upper course with tooled margins spans the entire structure, topped by an ashlar parapet that features a notable roll moulding at its base.
Local climate
Railway tunnel portal, MVL3/11 Scout Tunnel (south end) sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,030 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 83% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 75% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 47 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 88% of listed buildings. Of these, 27 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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