Tunnel Entrance And Lining Set In Bank At North East End Of Laughton Pond is a Grade II listed building in the Rotherham local planning authority area, England. First listed on 1 April 1987. Tunnel entrance.
Tunnel Entrance And Lining Set In Bank At North East End Of Laughton Pond
- WRENN ID
- rusted-spindle-elm
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Rotherham
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 1 April 1987
- Type
- Tunnel entrance
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
MALTBY ROCHE ABBEY SK58NW 5K54378969 7/53 Tunnel entrance and lining set in bank at north-east end of Laughton Pond GV II Tunnel entrance and lining. Probably medieval flanked by walls partly c1775. Magnesian limestone ashlar and in irregular blocks. Pointed-arched opening with voussoirs rising from chamfered plinth. Coursed walling above runs out into irregular blocks set as a retaining wall. Tunnel continues several metres into the bank wall below water level of Laughton Pond, its other end is not visible. A channel from the tunnel links to the river flowing through Roche Abbey (Scheduled Ancient Monument). Probably adapted as a landscape feature of Roche Abbey in the scheme carried out between 1774 and 1777 by Lancelot 'Capability' Brown for Lord Scarbrough.
Listing NGR: SK5437489678
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