Western Portal to Beacon Hill Railway Tunnel is a Grade II listed building in the Calderdale local planning authority area, England. A 1849 Tunnel portal.
Western Portal to Beacon Hill Railway Tunnel
- WRENN ID
- carved-baluster-birch
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Calderdale
- Constituency
- Halifax MP: Kate Dearden (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Type
- Tunnel portal
- OS grid reference
- SE 099 251
- Coordinates
- 53.72277, -1.85024
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Western Portal to Beacon Hill Railway Tunnel is a tunnel portal built in 1849 for the Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway Company. It is designed in a Neo-Norman style and constructed from rock-faced stone with ashlar dressings. The central round arched portal features two circular piers that support a double arch. The inner arch is adorned with simplified dogtooth moulding, while the outer arch showcases simplified beakhead moulding. The portal is set back, and the outer walls are battered, with large raised quoins at the inner corners. The outer ends of the portal have hexagonal corner turrets that include arrow slits. The entire facade is topped by a plain projecting parapet, which is supported by small round arches with plain corbels.
Local climate
Western Portal to Beacon Hill Railway Tunnel sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,030 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 82% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 76% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 51 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 92% of listed buildings. Of these, 30 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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