Lancaster Canal, East Portal of Whittle Hills Tunnel of Former Lancaster Canal is a Grade II listed building in the Chorley local planning authority area, England. First listed on 20 November 1986. Canal portal.
Lancaster Canal, East Portal of Whittle Hills Tunnel of Former Lancaster Canal
- WRENN ID
- woven-eave-bracken
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Chorley
- Constituency
- Chorley MP: Sir Lindsay Hoyle (Spk)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 20 November 1986
- Type
- Canal portal
- Address
- Lancaster Canal, East Portal of Whittle Hills Tunnel of Former Lancaster Canal, Whittle-Le-Woods
- OS grid reference
- SD 585 217
- Coordinates
- 53.69088, -2.6296
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The east portal of the Whittle Hills tunnel, part of the former Lancaster Canal, was built between 1801 and 1803 under the engineering of John Rennie. It is constructed from rock-faced sandstone and features a semicircular arch with rusticated voussoirs and a triple keystone. There are battered piers on both the left and right sides, although other details are obscured by heavy overgrowth of ivy. Historically, this portal was part of the canal link connecting the Leeds-Liverpool Canal at Johnsons Hillock to Walton Summit. Both portals are now redundant as the canal has been drained. The center of the tunnel collapsed and was opened out, with new portals added to the central section around 1838, which are considered of less interest.
Local climate
Lancaster Canal, East Portal of Whittle Hills Tunnel of Former Lancaster Canal 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 87% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 38 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 73% 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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