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
Country: England
Date first listed: 23 February 1987
Type: Railway entrance
Source: Historic England listing

Description

SK 50 NW 1/31

GLENFIELDS STEPHENSON COURT Tunnel entrance

Entrance to tunnel for the former Swannington to Leicester railway. 1830-32, by Robert Stephenson. Brick retaining wall with stone parapet. Battered brick piers flank horseshoe archway which has been blocked C20 with brick and metal doors. Granite portal originally designed by Stephenson not erected because of cost. One of the earliest railway tunnels in England and, at 1,796 yards long, the longest for a long while. Opened 17 July 1832 by Stephenson's Comet. (Leicestershire Industrial History Society, An Early Railway, 1982).

Listing NGR: SK5451306483

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