Redhill Tunnel North Portal is a Grade II listed building in the Rushcliffe local planning authority area, England. First listed on 5 May 1981. Tunnel entrance.
Redhill Tunnel North Portal
- WRENN ID
- tall-lime-hawthorn
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Rushcliffe
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 5 May 1981
- Type
- Tunnel entrance
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
SK 43 SE 1/135
THRUMPTON THRUMPTON HALL PARK Redhill Tunnel North Portal
5.5.81
II
Pair of tunnel entrances. East tunnel 1840, west tunnel 1875 with architectural treatment 1875. Engineers Thomas Jackson Woodhouse and Charles Vignoles (1840) and J.S. Crossley and J. A. McDonald (1875).
Rock-face ashlar. East entrance with castellated and machicolated parapet rising over a single central shield. To the right is a single octagonal castellated turret with corbel table and decorated with a single slit ventilator. To the right is a single smaller circular castellated turret with corbel table and decorated with single decorative arrow loop. Either side are single lower sections of wall with similar parapets. The west entrance with similar parapet to the left is a single similar octagonal turret and to the right a single similar circular turret. Either side are sections of stepped castellated wall terminating in single similar smaller circular turrets. All turrets being wider at the base.
Midland Counties Railway opened 5 May 1840. Midland Railway widened between Trent and Leicester 1875. Pevsner claims the original portal of 1839 had one tower and it was copied to make a symmetrical composition in 1901 when the line doubled.
Listing NGR: SK4952930757
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