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
- Constituency
- Amber Valley MP: Linsey Farnsworth (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 11 February 2014
- Type
- Tunnel portal
- Address
- Wingfield Tunnel North Portal (SPC8 51P2), 150m South-East of Lynam Road, Fritchley, South Wingfield, Derbyshire
- OS grid reference
- SK 370 529
- Coordinates
- 53.07252, -1.44838
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
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.
Local climate
Wingfield Tunnel North Portal (SPC8 51P2) receives an average of 780 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 60% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 70% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 39 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 75% of listed buildings. Of these, 20 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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