Railway tunnel portals MVL3/88 and MVL3/89, west end of Huddersfield Tunnels is a Grade II listed building in the Kirklees local planning authority area, England. Tunnel portals.
Railway tunnel portals MVL3/88 and MVL3/89, west end of Huddersfield Tunnels
- WRENN ID
- heavy-window-root
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Kirklees
- Constituency
- Huddersfield MP: Harpreet Uppal (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Type
- Tunnel portals
- OS grid reference
- SE 137 163
- Coordinates
- 53.64368, -1.79328
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The railway tunnel portals at the west end of the Huddersfield Tunnels consist of a pair of structures. The north portal was built between 1845 and 1849 for the Huddersfield & Manchester Railway line, designed by engineer Alfred Stanistreet Jee. The south portal was added later, between 1882 and 1886, under engineer J J Lee.
These portals are made from coursed and squared quarry-faced gritstone, featuring ashlar dressings. They are located in a deep rock cutting south of Springwood Avenue. Both portals share a similar design, set into a gritstone wall. Each portal features a semi-circular arch with a bold ashlar roll moulding, although the arch of the south portal is slightly taller than that of the north. Above the arches, there is a narrow coping that surmounts the gritstone wall.
Local climate
Railway tunnel portals MVL3/88 and MVL3/89, west end of Huddersfield 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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