Middlebere Tramway Tunnel Portal
MIDDLEBERE TRAMWAY TUNNEL PORTAL
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1390910
- Date first listed:
- 07-Apr-2004
- List Entry Name:
- Middlebere Tramway Tunnel Portal
- Statutory Address:
- MIDDLEBERE TRAMWAY TUNNEL PORTAL
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1390910
- Date first listed:
- 07-Apr-2004
- List Entry Name:
- Middlebere Tramway Tunnel Portal
- Statutory Address 1:
- MIDDLEBERE TRAMWAY TUNNEL PORTAL
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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:
- MIDDLEBERE TRAMWAY TUNNEL PORTAL
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Dorset (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Corfe Castle
- National Grid Reference:
- SY9474883242
Details
This List entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 04/05/2018
1071/0/10018
07-APR-04
CORFE CASTLE,
Middlebere Tramway Tunnel Portal
II
Plateway tunnel portal, on disused line. Dated 1807. Coursed limestone with dressed limestone arch-ring with a keystone, inscribed; BF 1807. This is the south portal of the tunnel; the north portal was buried in the road widening of the A351 in 1965. The plateway was constructed by B. Fayle to transport clay from Norden to Middlebere Quay on Middlebere Lake. The trucks would have been horse drawn originally, but later in the C19 small narrow gauge tank engines were introduced. The line was in use until 1936.
A rare surviving example of a plateway tunnel portal.
SOURCE: St John Thomas, D. : A Regional History of the Railways of Great Britain, Vol.1 The West Country; p.194.
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 492497
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Thomas, D, A Regional History of The Railways of Great Britain in The West Country, (), 194
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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