SOUTH ENTRANCE ARCH TO PRESTBURY RAILWAY TUNNEL

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1222039
Date first listed:: 06-Jul-1984
List Entry Name:: SOUTH ENTRANCE ARCH TO PRESTBURY RAILWAY TUNNEL
Statutory Address:: SOUTH ENTRANCE ARCH TO PRESTBURY RAILWAY TUNNEL

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Date:: 2004-04-24
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1222039
Date first listed:: 06-Jul-1984
List Entry Name:: SOUTH ENTRANCE ARCH TO PRESTBURY RAILWAY TUNNEL
Statutory Address 1:: SOUTH ENTRANCE ARCH TO PRESTBURY RAILWAY TUNNEL

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:: SOUTH ENTRANCE ARCH TO PRESTBURY RAILWAY TUNNEL

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

District:: Cheshire East (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Prestbury
National Grid Reference:: SJ9042877489

Details

SJ 97 NW PRESTBURY C.P.

6/226 South Entrance Arch to Prestbury Railway Tunnel

II

Railway Tunnel entrance arch: 1845 by G.W.Buck for the Manchester and Birmingham Railway. Ashlar buff sandstone. The centre of facade projects forward from the rubble revetment walls and has raking rusticated quoins. It contains a horseshoe shaped arch which has a cyma moulded rusticated surround and supports a modillion cornice and a solid parapet. The northern arch is simpler and in brick but the keystone has the date, and the company's initials.

Listing NGR: SJ9042877489

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Legacy System number:: 413849
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.