The Tunnel is a Grade II listed building in the Reigate and Banstead local planning authority area, England. First listed on 27 January 1989. Road tunnel. 3 related planning applications.
The Tunnel
- WRENN ID
- scarred-attic-ash
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Reigate and Banstead
- Constituency
- Reigate MP: Rebecca Paul (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 27 January 1989
- Type
- Road tunnel
- Address
- The Tunnel, Tunnel Road, RH2 0JY
- OS grid reference
- TQ 253 503
- Coordinates
- 51.23851, -0.20574
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Tunnel is a road tunnel dated 1823, designed by William Constable, a turnpike surveyor. The entrances are constructed of gault brick in Flemish bond, while the tunnel itself is made of red brick in stretcher bond. The south entrance features a tall round archway with two stages of blind, five-bay, round-arched arcading above the lower stage, and a datestone in the center. It has flanking buttresses with ashlar offsets at each stage and an embattled parapet with pitched ashlar coping. The north entrance is similar but has a shorter archway due to its position at the higher end of the sloping tunnel; it has only one stage of arcading above and lacks a parapet, featuring red-brick coping instead. Inside the tunnel, there is a blind segmental-arched arcade on each side with doorways leading to former chambers, most of which are blocked, and a barrel vault above.
Local climate
The Tunnel receives an average of 750 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 71% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 57% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 36 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 64% of listed buildings. Of these, 17 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 3 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
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- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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