WOODLEY TUNNEL, NORTH PORTAL AT SJ 9360 9221 ON PEAK FOREST CANAL

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1117081
Date first listed:: 10-Feb-1995
List Entry Name:: WOODLEY TUNNEL, NORTH PORTAL AT SJ 9360 9221 ON PEAK FOREST CANAL
Statutory Address:: WOODLEY TUNNEL, NORTH PORTAL AT SJ 9360 9221 ON PEAK FOREST CANAL

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1117081
Date first listed:: 10-Feb-1995
List Entry Name:: WOODLEY TUNNEL, NORTH PORTAL AT SJ 9360 9221 ON PEAK FOREST CANAL
Statutory Address 1:: WOODLEY TUNNEL, NORTH PORTAL AT SJ 9360 9221 ON PEAK FOREST CANAL

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:: WOODLEY TUNNEL, NORTH PORTAL AT SJ 9360 9221 ON PEAK FOREST CANAL

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

District:: Stockport (Metropolitan Authority)
Parish:: Non Civil Parish
National Grid Reference:: SJ 93587 92190

Details

SJ 99 SW MARPLE PEAK FOREST CANAL Woodley

1/10004 Woodley Tunnel, north portal at SJ 9360 9221

- II

North portal to canal tunnel. 1794-1801 with C20 alterations. Benjamin Outram and Thomas Brown engineers. Coursed millstone grit, ashlar band, coping and voussoirs. Almost round headed arch - slight skew. Cobbled access up to Hyde Road at North portal. The interior has C20 cement rendering to tunnel vault and the cobbled towpath has been replaced with concrete: steel rails. NB Tunnel goes under Hyde road necessitating concrete embanking/buttressing adjacent to portal. This is one of three original tunnels on the Peak Forest canal and it is 176 yds in length. South portal is listed separately.

Listing NGR: SJ9358792190

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Legacy System number:: 442243
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.