Entrance to Wasthill Tunnel Worcester and Birmingham Canal is a Grade II listed building in the Birmingham local planning authority area, England. First listed on 8 July 1982. Tunnel entrance.
Entrance to Wasthill Tunnel Worcester and Birmingham Canal
- WRENN ID
- lone-oriel-burdock
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Birmingham
- Constituency
- Birmingham Northfield MP: Laurence Turner (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 8 July 1982
- Type
- Tunnel entrance
- Address
- Entrance to Wasthill Tunnel Worcester and Birmingham Canal, Shannon Road B38
- OS grid reference
- SP 047 779
- Coordinates
- 52.3999, -1.93093
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The entrance to Wasthill Tunnel on the Worcester and Birmingham Canal, located on Shannon Road in Kings Norton, dates from 1796 to 1797. It features an elliptical brick wall with a voussoired arch that includes a prominent keystone. Above the arch is a stone band, and above that is a large tablet stone, which is now illegible. The tunnel itself is 2,726 yards long.
Local climate
Entrance to Wasthill Tunnel Worcester and Birmingham Canal receives an average of 770 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 63% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 76% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 39 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 75% of listed buildings. Of these, 19 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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