Tunnel Waterway In Barn Wood is a Grade II listed building in the South Gloucestershire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 1 March 1991. Waterway.
Tunnel Waterway In Barn Wood
- WRENN ID
- steep-entrance-birch
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- South Gloucestershire
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 1 March 1991
- Type
- Waterway
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
621774 STOKE PARK 4/25 Tunnel Waterway in Barn Wood GV II Tunnel, probably a waterway. c1750, by Thomas Wright. Limestone. A vaulted tunnel with a barrier or weir at its north end, probably part of decorative waterway, connected with a collection pool (q.v) in the landscaped grounds of Stoke Park Dower House (q.v) and part of an organised perambulation in the Park. Tunnel is clO metres long, paved floor, 1.5m wider and 2 m high, in regular limestone courses and shaped voussoir vault; an opening or skylight occurs at about mid-length. At the higher, east end is an upright flat slab forming a weir overflow, and the floor is paved in Pennant slabs. At both ends the stonework is rough, and may originally have been dressed fair. (Stewart Harding and David Lambert: 'Saving the Wizard's Landscape: Country Life, 14-4-88 pp 132-135).
Listing NGR: ST6202177332
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