Kirton Railway Tunnel Entrance is a Grade II listed building in the North Lincolnshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 7 March 1985. Railway tunnel entrance. 1 related planning application.
Kirton Railway Tunnel Entrance
- WRENN ID
- lone-loft-summer
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- North Lincolnshire
- Constituency
- Scunthorpe MP: Sir Nicholas Dakin (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 7 March 1985
- Type
- Railway tunnel entrance
- Address
- Kirton Railway Tunnel Entrance, Kirton in Lindsey
- OS grid reference
- SE 938 000
- Coordinates
- 53.48897, -0.58766
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Kirton Railway Tunnel Entrance is a railway tunnel entrance built in 1849 for the Manchester, Sheffield and Lincolnshire Railway, designed by engineer Sir John Hawkshaw. It is constructed of red brick with sandstone ashlar dressings and showcases a Gothic Revival style. The structure features a retaining wall with square end-turrets and a central tunnel entrance that is flanked by attached cylindrical towers. The tunnel entrance is boldly moulded in a horse-shoe shape and is set beneath a projecting coped parapet supported by shaped brackets. The flanking towers are four stages high, with splayed bases that include round arched doorways, moulded bands, arrow slits, round-headed splayed slits, and projecting coped parapets on brackets. The end turrets have a plinth, flat-headed splayed slits, and similar projecting parapets.
Local climate
Kirton Railway Tunnel Entrance receives an average of 750 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 70% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 84% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 36 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 64% of listed buildings. Of these, 18 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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- No EPC on record for this property
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- Related listed building consents — 1 application
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