Entrance Portal to Standedge Canal Tunnel is a Grade II* listed building in the Kirklees local planning authority area, England. First listed on 11 July 1985. Canal tunnel portal. 2 related planning applications.
Entrance Portal to Standedge Canal Tunnel
- WRENN ID
- deep-pedestal-stoat
- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- Kirklees
- Constituency
- Colne Valley MP: Paul Davies (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 11 July 1985
- Type
- Canal tunnel portal
- Address
- Entrance Portal to Standedge Canal Tunnel, Tunnel End, HD7 6NQ
- OS grid reference
- SE 039 119
- Coordinates
- 53.60377, -1.94165
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The entrance portal to the Standedge Canal Tunnel, built between 1798 and 1811, is a significant canal tunnel portal designed by engineer Benjamin Outram. It features a semicircular ashlar arch that leads into a stone-vaulted tunnel. The structure is constructed with coursed rubble walling, accented by a string course and ashlar coping. The tunnel itself is 3 miles and 171 yards long, 3 yards wide, and 17 feet high, with a water level of 8 feet.
Local climate
Entrance Portal to Standedge Canal Tunnel sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,020 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 75% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 51 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 93% 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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