South Portal of Shildon Railway Tunnel
SOUTH PORTAL OF SHILDON RAILWAY TUNNEL, BURNEY GARDENS
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1121495
- Date first listed:
- 24-Feb-1986
- List Entry Name:
- South Portal of Shildon Railway Tunnel
- Statutory Address:
- SOUTH PORTAL OF SHILDON RAILWAY TUNNEL, BURNEY GARDENS
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1121495
- Date first listed:
- 24-Feb-1986
- List Entry Name:
- South Portal of Shildon Railway Tunnel
- Statutory Address 1:
- SOUTH PORTAL OF SHILDON RAILWAY TUNNEL, BURNEY GARDENS
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
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.
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
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.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- SOUTH PORTAL OF SHILDON RAILWAY TUNNEL, BURNEY GARDENS
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- County Durham (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Shildon
- National Grid Reference:
- NZ 23215 26292
Details
NZ 22 NW SHILDON BURNEY GARDENS (East side, off) 4/67 South portal of Shildon Railway Tunnel II
South portal of Shildon Tunnel. 1842 for the Shildon Tunnel Company (a subsidiary of the Stockton and Darlington Railway Company). Dressed and ashler sandstone. Neo-Romanesque style. Large, semicircular roll-moulded arch, with rusticated, inward-splayed intrados, set in battered, rock-faced portal. Corbelled parapet and short blocking course above.
Shildon Tunnel (originally Known as the Prince of Wales Tunnel) was built to by-pass the Black Boy Incline and to serve the Wear Valley. The north portal lies within Bishop Auckland District.
(K. Hoole, A Regional History of the Railways of Great Britain, Volume 4 - The North East, 1974.
Listing NGR: NZ2321526292
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 112183
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Hoole, K, A Regional History of the Railways of Great Britain in The North East, Vol. 4, (1974)
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
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