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Latitude: 53.0629 / 53°3'46"N
Longitude: -2.2268 / 2°13'36"W
OS Eastings: 384900
OS Northings: 351766
OS Grid: SJ849517
Mapcode National: GBR 13H.V69
Mapcode Global: WHBCL.R8TQ
Plus Code: 9C5V3Q7F+57
Entry Name: Trent and Mersey Canal Harecastle Tunnel Portals and Attached Retaining Walls
Listing Date: 31 October 1989
Grade: II
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1210692
English Heritage Legacy ID: 384506
Also known as: Harecastle Tunnel South Portal
ID on this website: 101210692
Location: Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire, ST6
County: City of Stoke-on-Trent
Electoral Ward/Division: Tunstall
Parish: Non Civil Parish
Traditional County: Staffordshire
Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Staffordshire
Church of England Parish: Golden Hill St John the Evangelist
Church of England Diocese: Lichfield
Tagged with: Architectural structure Retaining wall Tunnel portal
SJ 85 SW; 613-1/1/169
STOKE ON TRENT,
TUNSTALL,
Trent and Mersey Canal
Harecastle Tunnel Portals and attached retaining walls
31/10/89
GV
II
Pair of canal tunnel portals and retaining walls. 1766-7. By
James Brindley and 1824-7 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 C20 coursed
rubble fanhouse, with a square tunnel entrance and above two
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.
Listing NGR: SJ8490051766
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