Railway tunnel portals MVL3/86 and MVL3/87, west 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, west end of Gledholt Tunnels
- WRENN ID
- forbidden-keystone-sepia
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Kirklees
- Country
- England
- Type
- Tunnel portal
- 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 Gledholt Tunnels are situated in a cutting near Gledholt Bank road. 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 quarry-faced voussoirs flanked by wide, raked quarry-faced piers and wing walls. Running above the arch is a bold ashlar roll moulding, carried across the piers and wing walls, surmounted by an ashlar parapet.
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