Railway tunnel portals MVL3/86 and MVL3/87, west end of Gledholt Tunnels

The west portals of the Gledholt Tunnels consist of a pair of tunnel entrances. The north portal was constructed between 1845 and 1849 for the Huddersfield & Manchester Railway, 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 with ashlar dressings. They are located in a cutting near Gledholt Bank road. Both portals feature a similar design, set into a gritstone wall. Each portal has a semi-circular arch made of quarry-faced voussoirs, flanked by wide, raked quarry-faced piers and wing walls. Above the arch, there is a prominent ashlar roll moulding that extends across the piers and wing walls, topped by an ashlar parapet.