Tunnel, Cove Harbour is a Grade B listed building in the Scottish Borders local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 3 October 1979.
Tunnel, Cove Harbour
- WRENN ID
- unlit-chamber-gold
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Scottish Borders
- Constituency
- Berwickshire, Roxburgh and Selkirk MP: John Lamont (Con)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 3 October 1979
- OS grid reference
- NT 783 717
- Coordinates
- 55.93821, -2.34769
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
A tunnel dating to 1751-4, located at Cove Harbour. This tunnel was cut through solid rock and includes four excavated cellars within, possibly enlarged from a natural cave. The northern entrance features a segmental-arched construction of sandstone rubble, accompanied by splayed wing walls. Later concrete repairs and strengthening work has been carried out both internally and at the southern approach. The tunnel is approximately 183 feet long and wide enough to accommodate a cart. It contains a main passage, 114 feet long and up to 10 feet 6 inches wide, from which four cellars extend. Prior to the construction of the harbour and access road in 1831, the tunnel likely provided the only convenient access to the shoreline. The tunnel is shown on an Ordnance Survey map from around 1854 and remains in use. Further details are documented by Angus Graham in the Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland, Volumes XCVII and 101, and in Buildings of Scotland: Borders by Kitty Cruft.
Local climate
Tunnel, Cove Harbour receives an average of 820 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 52% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 53% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 12 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 89% of listed buildings. Of these, 8 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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