Full Report for Listed Buildings
Summary Description of a Listed Buildings
Reference Number
87448
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
30/12/2005
Date of Amendment
30/12/2005
Name of Property
NW portal of Conwy Railway Tunnel
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Conwy
Community
Conwy
Town
Conwy
Locality
Mount Pleasant
Easting
277922
Northing
377581
Street Side
Location
In a deep cutting directly beneath the NW side of Mount Pleasant.
Description
Broad Class
Period
History
On the Chester & Holyhead Railway, and built in 1845. Its chief engineer was Robert Stephenson, and contractor for the Conwy section was John Evans. Conwy tunnel was the site where the ceremonial first sod of the railway was cut on St David's Day, 1845. This section of the line opened in 1846.
Exterior
The portal is of snecked rock-faced stone across a deep cutting, with flanking battered buttresses. Above the round arch is a corbel table and parapet. The parapet has a saddleback coping of tooled stone. It is splayed to the S bank where a rectangular terminal pier has a rock-faced cap (partly overgrown at the time of survey). A similar pier is on the N side (but obscured by vegetation at the time of inspection).
Interior
Reason for designation
Listed for its special interest as a tunnel portal of definite mid C19 architectural character, one of a number of items contributing to the overall historical integrity of this section of the former Chester & Holyhead Railway.
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