Conisbrough Tunnel East Portal

CONISBROUGH TUNNEL EAST PORTAL

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1192678
Date first listed:
26-Nov-1987
List Entry Name:
Conisbrough Tunnel East Portal
Statutory Address:
CONISBROUGH TUNNEL EAST PORTAL

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1192678
Date first listed:
26-Nov-1987
List Entry Name:
Conisbrough Tunnel East Portal
Statutory Address 1:
CONISBROUGH TUNNEL EAST PORTAL

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.

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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.

Understanding list entries

Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:
CONISBROUGH TUNNEL EAST PORTAL

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

District:
Doncaster (Metropolitan Authority)
Parish:
Cadeby
National Grid Reference:
SK 52178 99608

Details

CADEBY CONISBROUGH TUNNEL

SK59NW East portal 4/89

- II

Railway tunnel portal. 1849. For the South Yorkshire, Doncaster and Goole Railway Company : engineer Charles Bartholomew of the River Don Company (Doncaster Gazette, 1849). Gritstone voussoirs, rock-faced sandstone walling. Quoined buttresses flank a horseshoe arch with rustication below impost band and roll-moulded hoodmould. Roll-moulded cornice breaks forward over the buttresses; blocking course steps up at centre. The line was opened on 10th November 1849 and linked the Midland and Great Northern networks; after 1864 it became part of the Manchester, Sheffield and Lincolnshire railway which itself became the Great Central Railway in 1897. Linked by a 200 metre brick-lined tunnel to west portal (q.v.). Details of the new line discussed in: The Doncaster, Nottinghan and Lincoln Gazette, Nov 9, 1849, p1 and p6. P. L. Scowcroft, Lines of Doncaster: a concise railway history, 1986, p3.

Listing NGR: SK5217899608

Legacy

The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:
334793
Legacy System:
LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Scowcroft, P L, Lines of Doncaster a Concise Railway History, (1983), 3
The Doncaster Nottingham and Lincoln Gazette in 9 November, (1849)

Legal

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

Ordnance survey map of Conisbrough Tunnel East Portal

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