Clay Cross Tunnel South Portal (SPC8 68P1) is a Grade II listed building in the North East Derbyshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 11 February 2014. Tunnel portal.

Clay Cross Tunnel South Portal (SPC8 68P1)

WRENN ID
riven-garret-primrose
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
North East Derbyshire
Constituency
North East Derbyshire MP: Louise Sandher-Jones (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
11 February 2014
Type
Tunnel portal
Address
Clay Cross Tunnel South Portal (SPC8 68P1), Approx. 74m South of Clay Lane
OS grid reference
SK 388 628
Coordinates
53.1611, -1.41967
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Clay Cross Tunnel South Portal is a tunnel entrance built between 1836 and 1839 for the North Midland Railway, designed by George and Robert Stephenson, with assistance from Engineer Frederick Swanwick.

It is constructed from coursed, squared, quarry-faced Derbyshire gritstone, featuring moulded and tooled ashlar gritstone dressings. The portal has a horseshoe-shaped arch set within a masonry surround. The arch consists of two ashlar bands with a roll moulding profile and an additional ashlar band above the arch's outer curve. Broad, raking rusticated masonry buttresses flank the portal, leading to extensive quarry-faced masonry retaining walls. The entire structure is topped with an ashlar band course that has a bold roll moulding above it, along with a low ashlar parapet that serves as a cornice at the top of the portal façade.

Local climate

Clay Cross Tunnel South Portal (SPC8 68P1) 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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