West Portal
WEST PORTAL, CONISBROUGH TUNNEL
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1314839
- Date first listed:
- 26-Nov-1987
- List Entry Name:
- West Portal
- Statutory Address:
- WEST PORTAL, CONISBROUGH TUNNEL
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- Date:
- 2002-07-06
- Reference:
- IOE01/05438/05
- Rights:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1314839
- Date first listed:
- 26-Nov-1987
- List Entry Name:
- West Portal
- Statutory Address 1:
- WEST PORTAL, CONISBROUGH TUNNEL
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:
- WEST PORTAL, CONISBROUGH TUNNEL
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Doncaster (Metropolitan Authority)
- Parish:
- Cadeby
- National Grid Reference:
- SK 51980 99520
Details
CADEBY CONISBROUGH TUNNEL SK59NW West portal 4/90
- II
Railway tunnel portal. 1849. For the South Yorkshire, Doncaster and Goole Railway Company engineer Charles Bartholomew of the River Don Company (Doncaster Gazette, 1849). Gritstone voussoirs, ashlar sandstone walling. Horshoe arch with hollow-moulded hoodmould set in raised panel with battered arrises and rusticated quoins. Heavy cornice with double roll mould. The line was opened on 10th November 1849 and linked the Midland and Great Northern networks; after 1864 it became part of the Manchester, Sheffield and Lincolnshire railway which itself became the Great Central Railway in 1897. Linked by a 200 metre brick-lined tunnel to east portal (q.v.). Details of the new line discussed in:' The Doncaster, Nottinohan and Lincoln Gazette, Nov 9, 1849, p1 and p6. P. L. Scowcroft, Lines of Doncaster; a concise railway history, 1986, p3.
Listing NGR: SK5198099520
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 334794
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Scowcroft, P L, Lines of Doncaster a Concise Railway History, (1983), 3
The Doncaster Nottingham and Lincoln Gazette in 9 November, (1849)
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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