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Description: Western Portal to Beacon Hill Railway Tunnel

Address: Beacon Hill Railway Tunnel Berry Lane Halifax West Yorkshire

Grade: II

Group detail: Berry Lane

Full description:
Tunnel portal. Built 1849 for the Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway Co. Rock-faced stone with ashlar dressings. Neo-Norman style. Central round arched portal with 2 circular piers supporting a double arch. The inner arch has simplified dogtooth moulding and the outer arch has simplified beakhead moulding. This portal is set back, and the outer walls are battered with large raised quions at the inner corners, the outer ends have hexagonal corner turrets with arrow slits. The whole facade is topped by a plain projecting parapet supported on small round arches with plain corbels.