OXFORD CANAL, NEWBOLD TUNNEL NORTH PORTAL

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1233660
Date first listed:: 19-Nov-1992
List Entry Name:: OXFORD CANAL, NEWBOLD TUNNEL NORTH PORTAL
Statutory Address:: OXFORD CANAL, NEWBOLD TUNNEL NORTH PORTAL

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1233660
Date first listed:: 19-Nov-1992
List Entry Name:: OXFORD CANAL, NEWBOLD TUNNEL NORTH PORTAL
Statutory Address 1:: OXFORD CANAL, NEWBOLD TUNNEL NORTH PORTAL

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:: OXFORD CANAL, NEWBOLD TUNNEL NORTH PORTAL

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

County:: Warwickshire
District:: Rugby (District Authority)
Parish:: Harborough Magna
National Grid Reference:: SP 48551 77515

Details

HARBOROUGH MAGNA OXFORD CANAL SP 47 NE 7/10012 Newbold Tunnel North Portal GV II Tunnel portal. 1831-34 with slight C20 alterations. Brick and stone. Single, semi-circular arch with upward curving band and solid parapet. Spandrels curve outwards and run into wing walls which have trailing edges. All of brick except copings which are stone. Double towpaths throughout tunnel with cast-iron handrails with trailing edges for tow ropes. A rare example of a canal tunnel with these features constructed during 1830's improvements to the Oxford Canal carried out with William Cubitt as consultant engineer. South Portal lies in Rugby civil parish q.v.

Listing NGR: SP4855177515

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Legacy System number:: 409218
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.