Up Holland Tunnel, West Portal is a Grade II listed building in the West Lancashire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 11 August 1993. Railway tunnel portal. 2 related planning applications.

Up Holland Tunnel, West Portal

WRENN ID
quartered-chamber-swift
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
West Lancashire
Constituency
West Lancashire MP: Ashley Dalton (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
11 August 1993
Type
Railway tunnel portal
Address
Up Holland Tunnel, West Portal, Pimbo Lane
OS grid reference
SD 513 038
Coordinates
53.52915, -2.73483
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Up Holland Tunnel west portal is a railway tunnel portal built between 1846 and 1848 for the Liverpool and Bury Railway Company, designed by engineers James and William Thomson. It is constructed from sandstone ashlar and features a horseshoe arch with a deep splayed reveal and a roll-moulded surround. The retaining wall is made of channelled rock-faced masonry and includes broad flanking pilasters, a plain cornice, and a parapet with a central upstand. This structure forms a group with a railway bridge located approximately 400 meters to the west.

Local climate

Up Holland Tunnel, West Portal sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,050 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 85% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 77% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 30 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 65% of listed buildings. Of these, 15 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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