Middlebere Tramway Tunnel Portal is a Grade II listed building in the Dorset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 7 April 2004. Tunnel portal.
Middlebere Tramway Tunnel Portal
- WRENN ID
- cold-jade-bramble
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Dorset
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 7 April 2004
- Type
- Tunnel portal
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Middlebere Tramway Tunnel Portal is a plateway tunnel portal located on a disused line, dated 1807. It is constructed from coursed limestone and features a dressed limestone arch-ring with a keystone inscribed with "BF 1807." This structure is the south portal of the tunnel; the north portal was buried during the road widening of the A351 in 1965. The plateway was built by B. Fayle to transport clay from Norden to Middlebere Quay on Middlebere Lake. Initially, the trucks were horse-drawn, but in the 19th century, small narrow gauge tank engines were introduced. The line remained in use until 1936. This portal is a rare surviving example of a plateway tunnel portal.
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