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Latitude: 51.5413 / 51°32'28"N
Longitude: -0.1771 / 0°10'37"W
OS Eastings: 526516
OS Northings: 184059
OS Grid: TQ265840
Mapcode National: GBR 41.FP
Mapcode Global: VHGQR.WJ8B
Plus Code: 9C3XGRRF+G5
Entry Name: Primrose Hill Tunnels (Western Entrance)
Listing Date: 14 May 1974
Grade: II
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1246989
English Heritage Legacy ID: 476601
Also known as: Primrose Hill Tunnels (eastern Portals)
ID on this website: 101246989
Location: South Hampstead, Camden, London, NW8
County: London
District: Camden
Electoral Ward/Division: Swiss Cottage
Parish: Non Civil Parish
Built-Up Area: Camden
Traditional County: Middlesex
Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Greater London
Church of England Parish: Kilburn St Mary
Church of England Diocese: London
Tagged with: Railway tunnel Italianate architecture
CAMDEN
TQ2684SE ALEXANDRA ROAD
798-1/61/41 Primrose Hill Tunnels (Western
14/05/74 Entrance)
II
Pair of railway tunnel portals at the western end of Primrose
Hill Tunnels. c1837. By WH Budden. For the London & Birmingham
Railway; Engineer, Robert Stephenson. Stock brick and stone
with stone dressings. 2 round-arched tunnel mouths with
splayed and coved reveals of rusticated voussoirs and
keystones crowned by a heavy modillion cornice, linking to
massive stone flanking piers on vermiculated stone pedestals.
On south side, curved flanking screen wall to tunnel with
piers having stone caps; north flanking screen wall replaced
by later tunnel.
HISTORICAL NOTE: the 1837, 1000m long tunnel was considered a
triumph of engineering being London's first railway tunnel;
the rugged design was said to be intended to give confidence
to the new breed of railway passenger. For eastern entrances
see Primrose Hill Tunnels (Eastern Entrance), Primrose Hill
Road (qv).
Listing NGR: TQ2651684059
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