North Portal of Harecastle Railway Tunnel (North) is a Grade II listed building in the Newcastle-under-Lyme local planning authority area, England. First listed on 22 April 1988. Railway tunnel portal.

North Portal of Harecastle Railway Tunnel (North)

WRENN ID
twelfth-rood-owl
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Newcastle-under-Lyme
Constituency
Stoke-on-Trent North MP: David Williams (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
22 April 1988
Type
Railway tunnel portal
Address
North Portal of Harecastle Railway Tunnel (North), Boathouse Lane, Kidsgrove
OS grid reference
SJ 839 538
Coordinates
53.08121, -2.24077
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The north portal of the Harecastle Railway Tunnel is a railway tunnel portal built in 1848 for the North Staffordshire Railway, with later alterations. It is constructed of engineering brick in English bond and features a semi-elliptical arch surrounded by a rusticated frame made of hammer-dressed ashlar. This arch is supported by wide pilaster buttresses and topped with an ashlar blocking course.

Local climate

North Portal of Harecastle Railway Tunnel (North) receives an average of 910 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 69% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 52% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 45 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 87% of listed buildings. Of these, 25 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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