Stodhart Tunnel is a Grade II* listed building in the High Peak local planning authority area, England. Tunnel.
Stodhart Tunnel
- WRENN ID
- waning-column-moss
- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- High Peak
- Constituency
- High Peak MP: Jon Pearce (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Type
- Tunnel
- Address
- Stodhart Tunnel, Hayfield Road, Chapel-En-Le-Frith
- OS grid reference
- SK 058 814
- Coordinates
- 53.33031, -1.91316
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Stodhart Tunnel is a tramway tunnel entrance built in 1796, designed by Benjamin Outram, the engineer for the Peak Forest Tramway. It is constructed from coursed squared and rockfaced gritstone. The entrance features concave walling with ashlar coping, standing 4 metres high, and has a segment-headed archway that is 2 metres high in the center. The archway includes rock-faced jambs and voussoirs. Inside, the tunnel is lined with rock-faced gritstone and extends approximately 200 yards into the hillside. The other end of the tunnel has been filled in, and the tunnel portal has been demolished.
Local climate
Stodhart Tunnel sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,060 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 85% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 74% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 51 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 93% of listed buildings. Of these, 32 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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