SOUTH WEST ENTRANCE TO WELLOW TUNNEL, 20 YARDS TO NORTH WEST OF CHURCH FARM

SOUTH WEST ENTRANCE TO WELLOW TUNNEL, 20 YARDS TO NORTH WEST OF CHURCH FARM, HIGH STREET

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1320467
Date first listed:: 19-Oct-1983
List Entry Name:: SOUTH WEST ENTRANCE TO WELLOW TUNNEL, 20 YARDS TO NORTH WEST OF CHURCH FARM
Statutory Address:: SOUTH WEST ENTRANCE TO WELLOW TUNNEL, 20 YARDS TO NORTH WEST OF CHURCH FARM, HIGH STREET

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Date:: 2007-02-08
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1320467
Date first listed:: 19-Oct-1983
List Entry Name:: SOUTH WEST ENTRANCE TO WELLOW TUNNEL, 20 YARDS TO NORTH WEST OF CHURCH FARM
Statutory Address 1:: SOUTH WEST ENTRANCE TO WELLOW TUNNEL, 20 YARDS TO NORTH WEST OF CHURCH FARM, HIGH STREET

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:: SOUTH WEST ENTRANCE TO WELLOW TUNNEL, 20 YARDS TO NORTH WEST OF CHURCH FARM, HIGH STREET

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

District:: Bath and North East Somerset (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Wellow
National Grid Reference:: ST 74203 58343

Details

ST 7458 WELLOW C.P. HIGH STREET (South side) 12/27 South-west entrance to G.V. Wellow Tunnel, 20 yards to north-west of Church Farm

II

South-west entrance to Wellow Tunnel. Circa 1800 for the Somersetshire Coal Canal. The survey for the canal was William Smith "the Father of British Geology", under the supervision of John Rennie. The engineer was William Bennet. Coursed, squared rubble with freestone dressings. Semi-circular arch with keystone. Band. Pilaster strips to either side and high coped parapet. The interior of the tunnel is masonry lined. The southern (Midford-Radstock) branch of the Somersetshire Coal Canal was completed in 1798 but was abandoned in 1815 when a tramway was laid along it.

Listing NGR: ST7420158342

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Legacy System number:: 32365
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.