West Portal to Bridgehouses Railway Tunnel is a Grade II listed building in the Sheffield local planning authority area, England. First listed on 10 December 1981. Tunnel portal.
West Portal to Bridgehouses Railway Tunnel
- WRENN ID
- buried-entrance-fog
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Sheffield
- Constituency
- Sheffield Brightside and Hillsborough MP: Gill Furniss (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 10 December 1981
- Type
- Tunnel portal
- Address
- West Portal to Bridgehouses Railway Tunnel, Brunswick Road
- OS grid reference
- SK 357 882
- Coordinates
- 53.3896, -1.46373
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The West Portal to Bridgehouses Railway Tunnel is a tunnel portal built in 1847 by Frederick Swanwick for the Midland Railway Company. It is constructed from ashlar and coursed squared stone. The design features a semicircular archway with double roll moulding, flanked by slightly projecting rusticated pylons. These pylons are topped with a roll moulded cornice and blocking. To the right of the portal, there is a short curved retaining wall with slab coping, along with a square end pier that has a roll moulded cornice and a flat cap. This structure is an early example of monumental railway architecture.
Local climate
West Portal to Bridgehouses Railway Tunnel 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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