Charmouth Tunnel
CHARMOUTH TUNNEL, AXMINSTER ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1228302
- Date first listed:
- 10-Jan-1984
- List Entry Name:
- Charmouth Tunnel
- Statutory Address:
- CHARMOUTH TUNNEL, AXMINSTER ROAD
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- Reference:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1228302
- Date first listed:
- 10-Jan-1984
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 18-Oct-1984
- List Entry Name:
- Charmouth Tunnel
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHARMOUTH TUNNEL, AXMINSTER ROAD
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.
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:
- CHARMOUTH TUNNEL, AXMINSTER ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Dorset (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Wootton Fitzpaine
- National Grid Reference:
- SY 34912 94851
Details
SY 39 SW WOOTTON FITZPAINE AXMINSTER ROAD
5/200 Charmouth Tunnel Entrances
- II
Two entrances to road tunnel on A35, c one mile north west of Charmouth. 1832. Stone, with rusticated stone jambs and dressed stone voussoirs with projecting keystones to elliptical arches. Coursed rubble walling above each arch with a string-course and parapet with flat coping stones. Parapets return down to road leval as cutting revetment, and terminate in short square piers, coped. Dimensions: length 220 ft 6 in.; span 19 ft 7 in; road to head of arch, 19 ft. "A J Wallis, Dorset Bridges, (1974)" p 53.
Listing NGR: SY3491294851
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 402880
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Dorset County Chronicle in 12 January, (1832)
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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