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
- Country
- England
- Type
- Tunnel portals
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
A pair of tunnel portals; the north portal built between 1845 and 1849 for the Huddersfield & Manchester Railway line to the design of the engineer Alfred Stanistreet Jee, with the south portal added between 1882 and 1886 under the engineer J J Lee.
MATERIALS: coursed and squared quarry-faced gritstone with ashlar dressings.
DESCRIPTION: the west portals of Huddersfield Tunnels are situated in a deep rock cutting south of Springwood Avenue. The portals are of a similar design, set into a coursed and squared quarry-faced gritstone wall. They are each formed of a semi-circular arch with a bold ashlar roll moulding. However, the arch of the south portal is slightly taller than that to the north. Surmounting the gritstone wall above the arches is a narrow coping.
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