Wingfield Tunnel North Portal (SPC8 51P2)

The Wingfield Tunnel North Portal is a tunnel entrance built between 1836 and 1840 for the North Midland Railway, designed by George and Robert Stephenson along with Frederick Swanwick.

Constructed from coursed and squared quarry-faced Derbyshire gritstone with ashlar dressings, the north portal is located in a deep cutting. It features a true horseshoe arch made up of two orders of roll mouldings that merge into a single moulding at the base. An additional ashlar band runs along the extrados of the arch. The spandrels are also made of coursed and squared quarry-faced gritstone.

On either side of the portal, there are wide, raked piers made from the same gritstone, which have rusticated ashlar quoins. Flanking these piers are wing walls of quarry-faced gritstone that extend perpendicularly to the track. The entire structure is capped with an ashlar course, a bold roll moulding, and a low ashlar parapet of one course, which serves as a cornice to finish the design. The parapet rises gently towards the center above the arch.