Trent and Mersey Canal Harecastle Tunnel Portals and Attached Retaining Walls
TRENT AND MERSEY CANAL HARECASTLE TUNNEL PORTALS AND ATTACHED RETAINING WALLS
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1210692
- Date first listed:
- 31-Oct-1989
- List Entry Name:
- Trent and Mersey Canal Harecastle Tunnel Portals and Attached Retaining Walls
- Statutory Address:
- TRENT AND MERSEY CANAL HARECASTLE TUNNEL PORTALS AND ATTACHED RETAINING WALLS
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1210692
- Date first listed:
- 31-Oct-1989
- List Entry Name:
- Trent and Mersey Canal Harecastle Tunnel Portals and Attached Retaining Walls
- Statutory Address 1:
- TRENT AND MERSEY CANAL HARECASTLE TUNNEL PORTALS AND ATTACHED RETAINING WALLS
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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:
- TRENT AND MERSEY CANAL HARECASTLE TUNNEL PORTALS AND ATTACHED RETAINING WALLS
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- City of Stoke-on-Trent (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- SJ 84900 51766
Details
SJ 85 SW; 613-1/1/169
STOKE ON TRENT,
TUNSTALL,
Trent and Mersey Canal
Harecastle Tunnel Portals and attached retaining walls
31/10/89
GV
II
Pair of canal tunnel portals and retaining walls. 1766-7. By
James Brindley and 1824-7 by Thomas Telford. Brown brick,
rock-faced ashlar and coursed rubble with ashlar dressings.
Brindley's brick tunnel portal set back to the left with a
segmental arched entrance and an ashlar coped facing wall.
Telford's rock-faced ashlar tunnel portal to the right with a
segmental rusticated ashlar entrance arch, flanked by pilaster
buttresses. This entrance is now masked by a C20 coursed
rubble fanhouse, with a square tunnel entrance and above two
large metal-framed windows. Telford's original facing wall is
topped by an ashlar pulvinated frieze and plain coped parapet,
to the right this wall curves and slopes to the ground. To the
left the wall adjoins Brindley's tunnel portal, it is broken
in the centre by a gap, with flanking pilaster buttresses,
leading to pairs of long flights of steps rising between the
walls.
Listing NGR: SJ8490051766
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 384506
- Legacy System:
- LBS
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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