Ventilation Shaft for Castle Carr Tunnel 400 Metres East of Weavers Gate Footpath is a Grade II listed building in the Calderdale local planning authority area, England. First listed on 12 December 1984. Ventilation shaft.
Ventilation Shaft for Castle Carr Tunnel 400 Metres East of Weavers Gate Footpath
- WRENN ID
- sunken-nave-holly
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Calderdale
- Constituency
- Calder Valley MP: Josh Fenton-Glynn (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 12 December 1984
- Type
- Ventilation shaft
- OS grid reference
- SE 012 293
- Coordinates
- 53.76022, -1.98185
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The ventilation shaft for the Castle Carr Tunnel, built in the 1870s by engineer John la Trobe Bateman, is located 400 meters east of the Weavers Gate footpath in Wadsworth Moor. This structure serves the underground conduit for waterworks. It features a large dressed stone plinth and rock-faced walls, topped with an ashlar cornice. The shaft is circular and approximately 10 feet high, with four openings framed by large ashlar blocks for the jambs, lintel, and sill. A cast iron grille is present. This shaft is a notable example of stonemasonry in a remote area and is part of the tunnel system that connects Halifax to the Widdop reservoir.
Local climate
Ventilation Shaft for Castle Carr Tunnel 400 Metres East of Weavers Gate Footpath sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,100 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 88% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 80% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 53 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 94% of listed buildings. Of these, 31 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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