North Portal to Railway Tunnel is a Grade II listed building in the North Yorkshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 12 December 1985. Tunnel portal.
North Portal to Railway Tunnel
- WRENN ID
- fallow-barrel-merlin
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- North Yorkshire
- Constituency
- Harrogate and Knaresborough MP: Tom Gordon (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 12 December 1985
- Type
- Tunnel portal
- Address
- North Portal to Railway Tunnel, Knaresborough
- OS grid reference
- SE 349 572
- Coordinates
- 54.01038, -1.46778
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The north portal to the railway tunnel, built around 1851 for the East and West Yorkshire Junction Railway, is constructed of gritstone. It features a round arch with a keystone and voussoirs. The parapet has a roll moulding that steps down to the cutting walls on either side.
Local climate
North Portal to Railway Tunnel receives an average of 810 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 50% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 73% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 43 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 81% of listed buildings. Of these, 22 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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