Tunnel Entrance Including Embankments is a Grade II listed building in the Brighton and Hove local planning authority area, England. First listed on 13 October 1952. Tunnel entrance.

Tunnel Entrance Including Embankments

WRENN ID
weathered-courtyard-clover
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Brighton and Hove
Constituency
Brighton Kemptown and Peacehaven MP: Chris Ward (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
13 October 1952
Type
Tunnel entrance
Address
Tunnel Entrance Including Embankments, the Esplanade, the City of Brighton and Hove
OS grid reference
TQ 331 034
Coordinates
50.81536, -0.1114
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The tunnel entrance and adjacent embankment, accessed from the Sussex Square Estate gardens, were built between 1828 and 1830, with the embankment possibly constructed slightly later. The architect was H.E. Kendall, junior. The tunnel is made of brick in Flemish bond and features a barrel-vaulted, brick-lined interior that leads to the old Reading Room and Esplanade Cottages on the opposite side of the roadway, facing south. The entrance has a simple round-arched opening set within a gabled surround. The listing also includes the embankments that approach the tunnel, which are battered and slope down away from the entrance. This structure is part of a group that includes the former Old Reading Room, Esplanade Cottages, and The Temple.

Local climate

Tunnel Entrance Including Embankments receives an average of 840 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 56% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 89% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 15 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 85% of listed buildings. Of these, 7 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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