PRESTON BROOK TUNNEL ENTRANCE

PRESTON BROOK TUNNEL ENTRANCE, NORTHWICH ROAD

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1104925
Date first listed:: 31-Oct-1983
List Entry Name:: PRESTON BROOK TUNNEL ENTRANCE
Statutory Address:: PRESTON BROOK TUNNEL ENTRANCE, NORTHWICH ROAD

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1104925
Date first listed:: 31-Oct-1983
List Entry Name:: PRESTON BROOK TUNNEL ENTRANCE
Statutory Address 1:: PRESTON BROOK TUNNEL ENTRANCE, NORTHWICH ROAD

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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Location

Statutory Address:: PRESTON BROOK TUNNEL ENTRANCE, NORTHWICH ROAD

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

District:: Halton (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Preston Brook
National Grid Reference:: SJ 57033 79913

Details

SJ 58 NE PRESTON BROOK C.P. NORTHWICH ROAD

8/107 Dutton Preston Brook Tunnel Entrance

II

Canal tunnel linking south end of the Bridgewater Canal with the Trent and Mersey Canal Circa 1777. Of red brick with stone dressing to tunnel ends. The tunnel is without tow path therefore bridges, linked to a ground level horse track, form the tunnel ends. The only access point is at the "Talbot Arms" on the A533 Northwich Road at Dutton. The bridge at the south end of the tunnel is of blue bricks with stone arch ring, projecting carriage arch, parapet abutments and coping; these features have been lost at the north end, which has been rebuilt in red facing bricks.

Listing NGR: SJ5703379913

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Legacy System number:: 56020
Legacy System:: LBS

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