Mersey Tunnel Entrance is a Grade II listed building in the Liverpool local planning authority area, England. First listed on 9 March 1982. Tunnel entrance. 2 related planning applications.

Mersey Tunnel Entrance

WRENN ID
ragged-wall-frost
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Liverpool
Constituency
Liverpool Riverside MP: Kim Johnson (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
9 March 1982
Type
Tunnel entrance
Address
Mersey Tunnel Entrance, New Quay
OS grid reference
SJ 339 905
Coordinates
53.40777, -2.99566
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Mersey Tunnel entrance, built between 1925 and 1934, was designed by engineers Sir B. Mott and J. Brodie, with architect H. J. Rowse. The entrance is made of Portland stone and features a decorative plaque above the tunnel mouth. To the right, there is a long curving wall topped with reeded capping, which ends with a plaque displaying a winged wheel motif. Iron lamp standards line this wall. The shorter wall to the left does not have any notable features.

Local climate

Mersey Tunnel Entrance sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,080 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 86% 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 19 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 81% of listed buildings. Of these, 9 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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