Tunnel Portal In The John Smith Playing Field is a Grade II listed building in the Ribble Valley local planning authority area, England. First listed on 11 April 1986. Infrastructure.

Tunnel Portal In The John Smith Playing Field

WRENN ID
muffled-tin-hawk
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Ribble Valley
Country
England
Date first listed
11 April 1986
Type
Infrastructure
Source
Historic England listing

Description

  1. SD 611 378 LONGRIDGE OFF CHAIGLEY ROAD in the John Smith Playing Field

7/121A Tunnel Portal

  1. II

West portal of a tunnel, which is now blocked at the other end, dated 1839. Sandstone. The centre piece of the portal is flat on plan and projects a little between abutments which curve forward. All the masonry is rusticated and rock-faced. The tunnel is, apparently, an elliptical tube of coursed stone, and the voussoirs of the entrance are individually rusticated and rock-faced under a plan projecting string course. The taller keystone bears a panel incised with the letters P & L R 1839 FHP CT Overall is a smoother-faced blocking course (of single stones over the centre piece and of three shallow courses over the abutments) and a flat coping. Many of the stones bear masons' marks.

History: built for the Preston and Longridge Railway Company's line from Tootle Height Quarry which was opened in 1840. The chairman was Sir Peter Hesketh-Fleetwood (to whom the initials FHP are said to refer).

Listing NGR: SD6115337826

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