Portal to Stephenson's Tunnel, Crich is a Grade II listed building in the Amber Valley local planning authority area, England. First listed on 4 January 2013. Tunnel portal.

Portal to Stephenson's Tunnel, Crich

WRENN ID
dusted-flint-ivory
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Amber Valley
Constituency
Derbyshire Dales MP: John Whitby (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
4 January 2013
Type
Tunnel portal
OS grid reference
SK 349 540
Coordinates
53.08219, -1.4796
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The portal to Stephenson's Tunnel in Crich is a tramway tunnel entrance built in 1841 by George Stephenson. It is positioned directly against a vertical rock outcrop. The portal is made of gritstone blocks arranged in courses on a projecting plinth. The entrance features a stilted, semi-circular archway with voussoirs made from a single course of gritstone blocks. The opening is currently infilled. Historical maps from the Ordnance Survey indicate that the tunnel is short, running beneath Sandy Lane and originally emerging in what is now a private garden next to the Fire Station.

Local climate

Portal to Stephenson's Tunnel, Crich receives an average of 830 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 53% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 59% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 40 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 77% of listed buildings. Of these, 21 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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