Railway tunnel portals MVL3/86 and MVL3/87, east end of Gledholt Tunnels is a Grade II listed building in the Kirklees local planning authority area, England. Tunnel portal.
Railway tunnel portals MVL3/86 and MVL3/87, east end of Gledholt Tunnels
- WRENN ID
- under-rotunda-dew
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Kirklees
- Constituency
- Huddersfield MP: Harpreet Uppal (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Type
- Tunnel portal
- OS grid reference
- SE 136 163
- Coordinates
- 53.64348, -1.79493
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The east end of Gledholt Tunnels features a pair of railway tunnel portals. The north portal was constructed between 1845 and 1849 for the Huddersfield and Manchester Railway line, designed by engineer Alfred Stanistreet Jee. The south portal was added later, between 1882 and 1886, under engineer J J Lee.
Both portals are made of coursed and squared quarry-faced gritstone with ashlar dressings. They are set into a gritstone wall and have a similar design, although the southern portal is recessed several meters back from the northern one. Each portal features a semi-circular arch with a prominent ashlar roll moulding. On the south side of each portal, there is a projecting rectangular quarry-faced pier. At the top of the wall, a bold ashlar roll moulding serves as a cornice, finishing the structure.
Local climate
Railway tunnel portals MVL3/86 and MVL3/87, east end of Gledholt Tunnels sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 990 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 79% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 72% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 48 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 90% of listed buildings. Of these, 28 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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