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Tunnel Under Railway Embankment, Hartlepool

Description: Tunnel Under Railway Embankment

Grade: II
Date Listed: 2 August 1990
English Heritage Building ID: 433353

OS Grid Reference: NZ4918735833
OS Grid Coordinates: 449187, 535833
Latitude/Longitude: 54.7151, -1.2380

Location: Speeding Dr, Hartlepool TS24 9QG

Locality: Hartlepool
Local Authority: Hartlepool
County: Durham
Country: England
Postcode: TS24 9QG

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Listing Text

Hartlepool
Speeding Drive
N2 43 NE
1/161
Tunnel under
Railway
Embankment

II

Tunnel, C1835, designed by George Stephenson for the Hartlepool Dock and
Railway Company. Ashlar with ashlar dressings. Ashlar lined horse-shoe
shaped tunnel with a rusticated archway at either end. The north archway
is topped by chamfered coping, with side pilasters topped by ball finials,
the angled sloping side walls are rock-faced ashlar with ashlar coping,
and short terminating piers with ball finials., The south archway is
similar, though the sloping side walls are plain ashlar without the
terminating piers.


Listing NGR: NZ4918735833

Source: English Heritage

Listed building text is © Crown Copyright. Reproduced under licence: PSI Click-use licence number C2008002006.



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