Description

PYECOMBE CLAYTON HILL
1.
5405
Clayton
Clayton Tunnel.
North Portal with
Tunnel Cottage
TQ 21 SE 22/39
II

2.
This cottage is part of the original layout of the London-Brighton Railway
and dates from 1841. It is built over the north end of Clayton Tunnel. The
pointed arch of the Tunnel is flanked by octagonal turrets with imitation
machicolation, castellated parapet and loop lights. Between these and over the
arch is the cottage of 1 storey and 2 windows set back behind a parapet. Once
white brick. Hipped slate roof. Beyond the turrets on each side is a flanking
wall ending in a lower octagonal turret. Sir John Rennie was the chief engineer
of the London-Brighton railway line.

Listing NGR: TQ2980613940

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26276499

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Recommended Books

• 
  Suffolk: West: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Hampshire: Winchester and the North (The Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  For the Record
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  [(Bedfordshire, Huntingdon and Peterborough)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1968)
• 
  London 4: North: North v. 4 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
• 
  Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire, and Peterborough (Pevsner Architectural Guides): Written by Charles O'Brien, 2014 Edition, Publisher: Yale University Press [Hardcover]