Description

LOWER BRISTOL ROAD
(South side)

Twerton Tunnel:
west 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 set forward abutments with crenellated copings, main parapet with saddle back coping, with weathered string carried across full width. Lower parts of walls flared out. Similar to East entrance (qv), but without flanking turret. Part of development of Great Western line between Bath and Bristol, opened to traffic 21st August 1840. Tunnel 111ft long and known as No.6 Tunnel by railways. Considerable retaining wall some 1120ft long and up to 49ft high connecting this tunnel with Twerton Wood Tunnel (qv). 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: ST7212965008

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q17532362

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Recommended Books

• 
  Drawing up a Local Listed Building Consent Order: Historic England Advice Note 6
• 
  Devon (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Herefordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Gwent/Monmouthshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of Wales)
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  Department for Communities Listed Historic Buildings of Northern Ireland: Information Guide for the 2nd Survey of Historic Buildings
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  Listed Buildings, Conservation Areas and Monuments