TUNNEL AT SW 751424 SE

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1140911
Date first listed:: 03-Feb-1986
List Entry Name:: TUNNEL AT SW 751424 SE
Statutory Address:: TUNNEL AT SW 751424 SE

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Date:: 2001-06-30
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1140911
Date first listed:: 03-Feb-1986
List Entry Name:: TUNNEL AT SW 751424 SE
Statutory Address 1:: TUNNEL AT SW 751424 SE

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 751424 SE

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

District:: Cornwall (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Gwennap
National Grid Reference:: SW 75113 42446

Details

GWENNAP HALE MILLS SW 74 SE 5/138 Tunnel at SW 751424 SE - GV II 2 tunnels under railway embankment. Early C19. Built for The Redruth and Chasewater Railway. Granite arches and copings, elvan vaults and killas walling. 2 tunnels approximately 35m long at higher level for road. Embankment has battered coped rubble walls with similar but sloping return walls to buttress angles. Tunnel have horseshoe shaped portals to east and west with crudely rock-faced granite voussoirs and jambstones. Keystones rise to higher level. Interior has coursed elvan vault to each tunnel. These tunnels are near the principal intersection of the railway with the line crossing the embankment towards Poldice Mine and planned to be extended to Chacewater, but never completed. The Redruth and Chasewater Railway began in 1824 and was horse drawn until steam locomotives were introduced in 1854.

Listing NGR: SW7511342446

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Legacy System number:: 63237
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.