Air Shaft Cap to Former Railway Tunnel is a Grade II listed building in the Cumberland local planning authority area, England. First listed on 24 October 1989. Air shaft cap.
Air Shaft Cap to Former Railway Tunnel
- WRENN ID
- spare-vestry-ivy
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cumberland
- Constituency
- Whitehaven and Workington MP: Josh MacAlister (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 24 October 1989
- Type
- Air shaft cap
- Address
- Air Shaft Cap to Former Railway Tunnel, High Street, Whitehaven
- OS grid reference
- NX 976 184
- Coordinates
- 54.55057, -3.58392
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The air shaft cap to the former railway tunnel is located on High Street in Whitehaven. It was built to ventilate the Whitehaven and Furness junction railway, which opened in 1852 and runs beneath the grounds of Whitehaven Castle and part of the town. The structure is made of red brick and features a stone parapet.
Local climate
Air Shaft Cap to Former Railway Tunnel sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,560 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 99% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 99% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 18 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 83% of listed buildings. Of these, 7 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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