Listed Buildings
in Stoke-on-Trent and area
Harecastle Tunnel
Portals, Tunstall
Area
Tunstall |
Street
Trent & Mersey Canal |
Heritage No.
169 A |
Grade
II |
Date Listed
31 October 1989 |
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Building:
Harecastle Tunnel Portals and
attached retaining Walls |
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Location:
STOKE ON TRENT SJ85SW TRENT
AND MERSEY CANAL, Tunstall |
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Description:
Pair of
canal tunnel portals and retaining walls. 1766-1767 by James
Brindley and 1824-1827 by Thomas Telford. |
South Portal,
Harecastle Tunnel, Trent and Mersey Canal
Brindley's brick tunnel portal set back to the left.
Telford's rock-faced ashlar tunnel portal to the right.
in the centre the white canal lodge - also a listed building
photo: Roger Kidd -
Aug 2007
gap with flanking pilaster
buttresses leading to
pairs of long flights of steps rising between the walls
Pair of canal tunnel portals and retaining walls.
1766-1767 by James Brindley and 1824-1827 by Thomas Telford.
Brown brick, rock faced ashlar and coursed rubble
with ashlar dressings.
Brindley's brick tunnel portal set back to the
left with a segmental arched entrance and an ashlar coped facing
wall.
Telford's rock-faced ashlar tunnel portal to the
right with a segmental rusticated ashlar entrance arch, flanked
by pilaster buttresses. This entrance is now masked by a 20th
Century coursed rubble farmhouse with a square tunnel entrance
and above 2 large metal framed windows. Telford's original
facing wall is topped by an ashlar pulvinated frieze and plain
coped parapet.
To the right this wall curves and slopes to the
ground. To the left the wall adjoins Brindley's tunnel portal,
it is broken in the centre by a gap with flanking pilaster
buttresses leading to pairs of long flights of steps rising
between the walls.
narrow boat
entering the Telford tunnel portal
disused
Brindley tunnel entrance
photos: Steve Birks May 2008
Boathorse Road, Harecastle
Brindley and Harecastle Tunnel
historic boatman's walk to Kidsgrove
  
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