Tunnel Entrance is a Grade II listed building in the Blaby local planning authority area, England. First listed on 23 February 1987. A C19 Railway entrance. 1 related planning application.

Tunnel Entrance

WRENN ID
frozen-cellar-hawk
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Blaby
Constituency
Mid Leicestershire MP: Mr Peter Bedford (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
23 February 1987
Type
Railway entrance
Address
Tunnel Entrance, Stephenson Court, Glenfields
OS grid reference
SK 545 064
Coordinates
52.65336, -1.19559
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The tunnel entrance is part of the former Swannington to Leicester railway, built between 1830 and 1832 by Robert Stephenson. It features a brick retaining wall topped with a stone parapet. Battered brick piers flank a horseshoe archway, which has been blocked in the 20th century with brick and metal doors. Although a granite portal was originally designed by Stephenson, it was not constructed due to cost. This tunnel is one of the earliest railway tunnels in England and, at 1,796 yards long, it was the longest for many years. It was opened on 17 July 1832 by Stephenson's Comet.

Local climate

Tunnel Entrance sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 730 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 77% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 71% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 36 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 62% of listed buildings. Of these, 17 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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