Parkway Tunnel and Cutting is a Grade II listed building in the Camden local planning authority area, England. First listed on 14 May 1974. Railway tunnel. 2 related planning applications.

Parkway Tunnel and Cutting

WRENN ID
first-basalt-aspen
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Camden
Constituency
Holborn and St Pancras
Country
England
Date first listed
14 May 1974
Type
Railway tunnel
Address
Parkway Tunnel and Cutting, NW1 7PS
OS grid reference
TQ 287 835
Coordinates
51.5363, -0.14551
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Parkway Tunnel and Cutting is a railway tunnel and cutting built around 1836-1837. The entrance features stone jambs that support a 20th-century steel girder. The tunnel walls are made of stock brick and include closely spaced shallow buttresses topped with stone caps. These buttresses rise to form piers that support attractive cast-iron railings with an arcaded design. There are former segmental cast-iron struts that spanned the cutting between the piers, which have been cut back to their base plates. A similar revetment is located to the north-east of the tunnel. Additionally, railings and piers were added to the north-west of the tunnel around 1900-1906 to match the earlier work when the New Line was constructed.

Local climate

Parkway Tunnel and Cutting sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 690 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 95% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 98% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 35 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 57% of listed buildings. Of these, 16 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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