PRIMROSE HILL TUNNELS (WESTERN ENTRANCE)

PRIMROSE HILL TUNNELS (WESTERN ENTRANCE), ALEXANDRA ROAD

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1246989
Date first listed:: 14-May-1974
List Entry Name:: PRIMROSE HILL TUNNELS (WESTERN ENTRANCE)
Statutory Address:: PRIMROSE HILL TUNNELS (WESTERN ENTRANCE), ALEXANDRA ROAD

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1246989
Date first listed:: 14-May-1974
List Entry Name:: PRIMROSE HILL TUNNELS (WESTERN ENTRANCE)
Statutory Address 1:: PRIMROSE HILL TUNNELS (WESTERN ENTRANCE), ALEXANDRA ROAD

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:: PRIMROSE HILL TUNNELS (WESTERN ENTRANCE), ALEXANDRA ROAD

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

County:: Greater London Authority
District:: Camden (London Borough)
Parish:: Non Civil Parish
National Grid Reference:: TQ 26516 84059

Details

CAMDEN

TQ2684SE ALEXANDRA ROAD 798-1/61/41 Primrose Hill Tunnels (Western 14/05/74 Entrance)

II

Pair of railway tunnel portals at the western end of Primrose Hill Tunnels. c1837. By WH Budden. For the London & Birmingham Railway; Engineer, Robert Stephenson. Stock brick and stone with stone dressings. 2 round-arched tunnel mouths with splayed and coved reveals of rusticated voussoirs and keystones crowned by a heavy modillion cornice, linking to massive stone flanking piers on vermiculated stone pedestals. On south side, curved flanking screen wall to tunnel with piers having stone caps; north flanking screen wall replaced by later tunnel. HISTORICAL NOTE: the 1837, 1000m long tunnel was considered a triumph of engineering being London's first railway tunnel; the rugged design was said to be intended to give confidence to the new breed of railway passenger. For eastern entrances see Primrose Hill Tunnels (Eastern Entrance), Primrose Hill Road (qv).

Listing NGR: TQ2651684059

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Legacy System number:: 476601
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.