Tunnel Entrance to Railway Underneath Poundbury Camp is a Grade II listed building in the Dorset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 8 May 1975. Civil engineering. 1 related planning application.
Tunnel Entrance to Railway Underneath Poundbury Camp
- WRENN ID
- kindled-barrel-cream
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Dorset
- Constituency
- West Dorset MP: Edward Morello (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 8 May 1975
- Type
- Civil engineering
- Address
- Tunnel Entrance to Railway Underneath Poundbury Camp, Dorchester
- OS grid reference
- SY 683 910
- Coordinates
- 50.71846, -2.4492
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The tunnel entrance to the railway underneath Poundbury Camp dates from 1857. It was constructed after the engineer Isambard Kingdom Brunel was convinced not to create a cutting through the Camp, largely due to the influence of the Reverend William Barnes, the Rector of Winterborne Came, who was a notable Dorset dialect poet and a key figure in establishing the Dorset County Museum. This tunnel is an early example of civil engineering that respects ancient monuments, which is why its entrances are significant. The structure features red brick, a band, a parapet, curved flanking walls, and rusticated ashlar voussoirs.
Local climate
Tunnel Entrance to Railway Underneath Poundbury Camp receives an average of 840 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 55% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 77% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 13 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 88% of listed buildings. Of these, 5 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
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- Related listed building consents — 1 application
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