Ventilation Shaft for Castle Carr Tunnel 200 Metres West 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 200 Metres West of Weavers Gate Footpath

WRENN ID
calm-pillar-wagtail
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 008 293
Coordinates
53.76064, -1.98838
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The ventilation shaft for the Castle Carr Tunnel, built in the 1870s by engineer John la Trobe Bateman, is located 200 meters west of the Weavers Gate Footpath in Wadsworth Moor. This structure serves as a ventilation point for an underground waterworks conduit. It features a large dressed stone plinth and rockfaced walls, topped with an ashlar cornice. The shaft is circular and approximately 10 feet high, with four openings that include large ashlar blocks for the jambs, lintel, and sill, as well as a cast iron grille. 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 200 Metres West 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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