Horn Hill Tunnel South Entrance is a Grade II listed building in the Dorset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 12 June 1953. Tunnel. 1 related planning application.
Horn Hill Tunnel South Entrance
- WRENN ID
- dusted-granite-gold
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Dorset
- Constituency
- West Dorset MP: Edward Morello (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 12 June 1953
- Type
- Tunnel
- Address
- Horn Hill Tunnel South Entrance, Beaminster, DT8 3HB
- OS grid reference
- ST 467 031
- Coordinates
- 50.82532, -2.75701
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Horn Hill Tunnel South Entrance is a tunnel entrance dated 1832. Above the entrance, there is a tablet with the inscription: "The public are permanently indebted for the erection of this TUNNEL to the zealous exertions of GILES RUSSELL of Beaminster, GENT. Begun August 1831, finished June 1832. M. Lane, Civil Engineer." The structure features ashlar stone walls that flank the arch. The arch itself has rusticated jambs, voussoirs, and a dropped keystone, with flat imposts. A round string course runs above the tablet. The parapets and return walls are stone-coped and curve down to square terminal capped piers. The tunnel is 345 feet long.
Local climate
Horn Hill Tunnel South Entrance receives an average of 790 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 58% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 71% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 25 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 73% of listed buildings. Of these, 9 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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