Tunnel Under Pythouse Drive is a Grade II listed building in the Wiltshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 6 January 1966. Tunnel.

Tunnel Under Pythouse Drive

WRENN ID
salt-corbel-reed
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Wiltshire
Constituency
Salisbury MP: John Glen (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
6 January 1966
Type
Tunnel
Address
Tunnel Under Pythouse Drive, West Tisbury
OS grid reference
ST 907 282
Coordinates
51.05331, -2.13286
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The tunnel under Pythouse Drive is a Grade II listed structure located in West Tisbury, likely built in the early 19th century. It features rock-faced limestone stilted segmental arched portals leading into a barrel-vaulted tunnel. The tunnel has a low parapet with square end piers. It carries a driveway that runs through an avenue of limes and is accessed via 18th-century gates located north of Hatch House. It is possible that this drive was redirected westward over the tunnel after the Benetts acquired Hatch House in the mid-19th century.

Local climate

Tunnel Under Pythouse Drive receives an average of 830 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 54% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 59% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 36 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 64% of listed buildings. Of these, 16 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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