Redhill Tunnel North Portal

Redhill Tunnel North Portal, Thrumpton Hall Park, Thrumpton

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1260025
Date first listed:: 04-May-1981
List Entry Name:: Redhill Tunnel North Portal
Statutory Address:: Redhill Tunnel North Portal, Thrumpton Hall Park, Thrumpton

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1260025
Date first listed:: 04-May-1981
List Entry Name:: Redhill Tunnel North Portal
Statutory Address 1:: Redhill Tunnel North Portal, Thrumpton Hall Park, Thrumpton

This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.

For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:: Redhill Tunnel North Portal, Thrumpton Hall Park, Thrumpton

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

County:: Nottinghamshire
District:: Rushcliffe (District Authority)
Parish:: Thrumpton
National Grid Reference:: SK 49529 30757

Details

SK 43 SE 1/135

THRUMPTON THRUMPTON HALL PARK Redhill Tunnel North Portal

5.5.81

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Pair of tunnel entrances. East tunnel 1840, west tunnel 1875 with architectural treatment 1875. Engineers Thomas Jackson Woodhouse and Charles Vignoles (1840) and J.S. Crossley and J. A. McDonald (1875).

Rock-face ashlar. East entrance with castellated and machicolated parapet rising over a single central shield. To the right is a single octagonal castellated turret with corbel table and decorated with a single slit ventilator. To the right is a single smaller circular castellated turret with corbel table and decorated with single decorative arrow loop. Either side are single lower sections of wall with similar parapets. The west entrance with similar parapet to the left is a single similar octagonal turret and to the right a single similar circular turret. Either side are sections of stepped castellated wall terminating in single similar smaller circular turrets. All turrets being wider at the base.

Midland Counties Railway opened 5 May 1840. Midland Railway widened between Trent and Leicester 1875. Pevsner claims the original portal of 1839 had one tower and it was copied to make a symmetrical composition in 1901 when the line doubled.

Listing NGR: SK4952930757

Legacy

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Legacy System number:: 441835
Legacy System:: LBS

Legal

This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.