The Arches and Linked Tunnel Entrance on Furnival Road is a Grade II listed building in the Sheffield local planning authority area, England. First listed on 8 March 1988. Coal staithes. 3 related planning applications.
The Arches and Linked Tunnel Entrance on Furnival Road
- WRENN ID
- narrow-ledge-mallow
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Sheffield
- Constituency
- Sheffield Central MP: Abtisam Mohamed (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 8 March 1988
- Type
- Coal staithes
- Address
- The Arches and Linked Tunnel Entrance on Furnival Road, Canal Wharf
- OS grid reference
- SK 361 877
- Coordinates
- 53.38543, -1.45799
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Arches and linked tunnel entrance on Furnival Road in Sheffield is a Grade II listed structure dating from 1855, with restoration completed in 1983. It was built for the Manchester, Sheffield and Lincolnshire Railway Company and features rock-faced stone and rubble with ashlar dressings. The design includes a string course and coped parapets, along with a continuous retaining wall.
At the west end, there is a segmental skew arch. On the Furnival Road side, the structure has flanking pilasters and sloping wing walls with smaller piers, all topped with pyramidal caps. To the east, the wall projects forward with nine segmental arches, which then continues in a gentle S-curve with an additional eleven arches. Two further arches were demolished in 1993. The tenth arch is narrower and also features flanking pilasters with pyramidal caps. All arches include keystones. The vaults beneath the arches are supported by girders that carry rail tracks, where coal was dropped from wagons into the vaults below. The building was vacant at the time of the survey.
Local climate
The Arches and Linked Tunnel Entrance on Furnival Road receives an average of 890 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 65% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 53% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 39 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 76% of listed buildings. Of these, 21 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 2 transactions since 2015
- Related listed building consents — 3 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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