TWERTON TUNNEL: EAST ENTRANCE (ADJOINING CARR'S WOOD)

TWERTON TUNNEL: EAST ENTRANCE (ADJOINING CARR'S WOOD), LOWER BRISTOL ROAD

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Overview

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1395139
Date first listed:: 11-Aug-1972
List Entry Name:: TWERTON TUNNEL: EAST ENTRANCE (ADJOINING CARR'S WOOD)
Statutory Address:: TWERTON TUNNEL: EAST ENTRANCE (ADJOINING CARR'S WOOD), LOWER BRISTOL ROAD

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1395139
Date first listed:: 11-Aug-1972
Date of most recent amendment:: 15-Oct-2010
List Entry Name:: TWERTON TUNNEL: EAST ENTRANCE (ADJOINING CARR'S WOOD)
Statutory Address 1:: TWERTON TUNNEL: EAST ENTRANCE (ADJOINING CARR'S WOOD), LOWER BRISTOL 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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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:: TWERTON TUNNEL: EAST ENTRANCE (ADJOINING CARR'S WOOD), LOWER BRISTOL ROAD

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

District:: Bath and North East Somerset (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Non Civil Parish
National Grid Reference:: ST 72160 64985

Details

LOWER BRISTOL ROAD (South side) Twerton Tunnel: east Entrance (adjoining Carr's Wood) (Formerly Listed as: LOWER BRISTOL ROAD, Twerton Entrances to Twerton Tunnel (adjoining Carr's Wood)) 11/08/72 II*

Railway tunnel entrance. c1840, by IK Brunel. Lias walling with ashlar dressings. Tudor style, single four-centred arch with dressed flush face, between octagonal turrets, that to right (north) complete turret, with cross arrow-loop, and with crenellated top, with short run of supporting wall to right, at angle to track alignment. To left turret projects forward, but carried across as wall parallel with tunnel front, rather than returned as turret, also crenellated. Main horizontal parapet saddle-back coped, and weathered string below carried across full width of frontage. Lower parts of walls are flared out. On south side of entrance run of retaining wall, extending approx 60m, in course stonework, with engineering brick capping, with long section raised to flat gable, all on stepped corbel-table, wall flared out in lower half. At east end wall stopped to large plain square pier with flat capping on triple frieze-band. Part of Great Western line development between Bath and Bristol, opened to traffic 21st August 1840. Tunnel 111 feet long and known as No.6 Tunnel by railways. SOURCES: (Civil Engineering Heritage: Sievewright WJ: Wales and Western England: London: 1986-: 12 AVON; Wishaw F: Railways of Great Britain and Ireland (1842): Newton Abbot: 1969-: 149).

Listing NGR: ST7216064985

Legacy

The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:: 510556
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.