Wingfield Tunnel North Portal (SPC8 51P2) is a Grade II listed building in the Amber Valley local planning authority area, England. First listed on 11 February 2014. Tunnel portal.
Wingfield Tunnel North Portal (SPC8 51P2)
- WRENN ID
- crooked-hinge-kestrel
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Amber Valley
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 11 February 2014
- Type
- Tunnel portal
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
A tunnel portal built 1836-40 for the North Midland Railway to the designs of George and Robert Stephenson with Frederick Swanwick.
MATERIALS: coursed and squared quarry-faced Derbyshire Gritstone walling, ashlar dressings.
DESCRIPTION: the north portal of Wingfield Tunnel is situated in a deep cutting. It possesses a true horseshoe arch consisting of two orders of roll mouldings which merge into a single moulding at the foot. There is an additional ashlar band running along the extrados. The spandrels are of coursed and squared quarry-faced gritstone. Projecting on either side there are wide, raked piers of coursed and squared quarry-faced gritstone with rusticated ashlar quoins. Outside these are wing walls of quarry-faced gritstone that run perpendicular to the track. The whole is topped with an ashlar course, bold roll moulding and a low ashlar parapet of one course, which act as a cornice to terminate the structure. Over the arch the parapet rises gently towards the centre.
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