North Portal to Clay Cross Railway Tunnel is a Grade II listed building in the North East Derbyshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 5 May 1981. Railway tunnel entrance.
North Portal to Clay Cross Railway Tunnel
- WRENN ID
- rough-vestry-dust
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- North East Derbyshire
- Constituency
- North East Derbyshire MP: Louise Sandher-Jones (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 5 May 1981
- Type
- Railway tunnel entrance
- Address
- North Portal to Clay Cross Railway Tunnel, Brassington Street
- OS grid reference
- SK 397 642
- Coordinates
- 53.17375, -1.40731
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The North Portal to Clay Cross Railway Tunnel is a railway tunnel entrance built between 1838 and 1840 by George Stephenson. It features rock-faced stone and ashlar construction. The design includes two tapering octagonal towers with sloping ashlar bases, each adorned with moulded stringcourses at the tops of the bases and towers. The towers have slit and arrow windows, and above them are castellated embattlements. In the center, there is a large elliptical arch with rounded mouldings. Above the arch, projecting castellated parapets rest on moulded corbels. The tunnel was opened as part of the North Midlands Railway in 1840.
Local climate
North Portal to Clay Cross Railway Tunnel receives an average of 820 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 50% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 64% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 39 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 76% 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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