Redhill Tunnel North Portal
Redhill Tunnel North Portal, Thrumpton Hall Park, Thrumpton
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1260025
- Date first listed:
- 05-May-1981
- List Entry Name:
- Redhill Tunnel North Portal
- Statutory Address:
- Redhill Tunnel North Portal, Thrumpton Hall Park, Thrumpton
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1260025
- Date first listed:
- 05-May-1981
- List Entry Name:
- Redhill Tunnel North Portal
- Statutory Address 1:
- Redhill Tunnel North Portal, Thrumpton Hall Park, Thrumpton
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:
- Redhill Tunnel North Portal, Thrumpton Hall Park, Thrumpton
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Nottinghamshire
- District:
- Rushcliffe (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Thrumpton
- National Grid Reference:
- SK 49529 30757
Details
SK 43 SE
1/135
THRUMPTON
THRUMPTON HALL PARK
Redhill Tunnel North Portal
5.5.81
II
Pair of tunnel entrances. East tunnel 1840, west tunnel 1875 with architectural treatment 1875. Engineers Thomas Jackson Woodhouse and Charles Vignoles (1840) and J.S. Crossley and J. A. McDonald (1875).
Rock-face ashlar. East entrance with castellated and machicolated parapet rising over a single central shield. To the right is a single octagonal castellated turret with corbel table and decorated with a single slit ventilator. To the right is a single smaller circular castellated turret with corbel table and decorated with single decorative arrow loop. Either side are single lower sections of wall with similar parapets. The west entrance with similar parapet to the left is a single similar octagonal turret and to the right a single similar circular turret. Either side are sections of stepped castellated wall terminating in single similar smaller circular turrets. All turrets being wider at the base.
Midland Counties Railway opened 5 May 1840. Midland Railway widened between Trent and Leicester 1875. Pevsner claims the original portal of 1839 had one tower and it was copied to make a symmetrical composition in 1901 when the line doubled.
Listing NGR: SK4952930757
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 441835
- 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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