Tunnel Connecting Stables and Ashcombe Park is a Grade II listed building in the Staffordshire Moorlands local planning authority area, England. First listed on 15 December 1986. A C19 Tunnel.

Tunnel Connecting Stables and Ashcombe Park

WRENN ID
pitched-basalt-gold
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Staffordshire Moorlands
Constituency
Staffordshire Moorlands MP: Dame Karen Bradley (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
15 December 1986
Type
Tunnel
Address
Tunnel Connecting Stables and Ashcombe Park, Cheadle Road, Cheddleton, ST13 7BE
OS grid reference
SJ 973 511
Coordinates
53.05795, -2.04055
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The tunnel connecting the stables and Ashcombe Park was built around 1806. It is a stone-vaulted structure that measures approximately 35 meters long, 2 meters wide, and 2 meters high. At the south end, there is a retaining wall and a boarded door. The tunnel was designed to discreetly serve the main house by transporting coal and farm produce.

Local climate

Tunnel Connecting Stables and Ashcombe Park receives an average of 940 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 72% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 59% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 49 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 90% of listed buildings. Of these, 28 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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