TUNNEL AT SW 762419 SW PART OF THE REDRUTH AND CHASEWATER RAILWAY

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1140856
Date first listed:: 12-Mar-1986
List Entry Name:: TUNNEL AT SW 762419 SW PART OF THE REDRUTH AND CHASEWATER RAILWAY
Statutory Address:: TUNNEL AT SW 762419 SW PART OF THE REDRUTH AND CHASEWATER RAILWAY

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1140856
Date first listed:: 12-Mar-1986
List Entry Name:: TUNNEL AT SW 762419 SW PART OF THE REDRUTH AND CHASEWATER RAILWAY
Statutory Address 1:: TUNNEL AT SW 762419 SW PART OF THE REDRUTH AND CHASEWATER RAILWAY

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:: TUNNEL AT SW 762419 SW PART OF THE REDRUTH AND CHASEWATER RAILWAY

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

District:: Cornwall (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Gwennap
National Grid Reference:: SW7618441931

Details

SW 74 SE LEA

1/123 Tunnel at SW 762419 SW part of the Redruth and Chasewater Railway

II

Tunnel for stream through railway embankment. Circa 1824. Killas rubble except for dressed granite voussoirs to round-arched tunnel entrances to north and south. single span with taller keystone to middle of each arch and vertical rubble walling over flanked by battered and splayed embankment retaining walls. The Redruth and Chasewater Railway, 1824-1915, was constructed to carry mineral ore to the port of Devoran from the mining hinterland and was horse drawn until 1854, when steam locomotives were introduced. This tunnel or bridge is the main feature of the tall embankment which enabled the railway to cross the valley and also provided efficient outlet for water from for THE GREAT ADIT, a remarkable C18 feat of engineering which facilitated the draining of mines for an area of several square miles.

Listing NGR: SW7618441931

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Legacy System number:: 63409
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.