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Huthwaite Lane, SHEFFIELD, S35 7BU

This tunnel is part of the transpennine way. Which has been built on a disused railway.

Completed in 1748, Grade II* listed, Huthwaite Hall was one of the first independent commissions from the prolific English architect, John Carr (1723–1807). Born in Horbury, he was twice Lord Mayor of York (1770 and 1785). Fairfax House in York, possibly the finest Georgian town house in England, is an excellent example of his work.

Grade II* listed building, built in 1748 by the architect John Carr for John Cockshutt who operated the wire mills in nearby Thurgoland.

John Carr's earliest extant design (and second overall). Built for John Cockshutt, owner of Wortley ironworks, in 1748, it exhibits the dignified restraint, even if it lacks some of the sophistication, evident in his later work. Grade II* listed. In the C18th architectural hierarchy, Carr (1723-1807) was somewhat more accomplished than most of the breed of skilled, provincial builder-architects of the Georgian era. Whilst not sitting at the top table of the London elite, he was the only provincial member of the London Architects' Club, and "was known and respected in the most sophisticated architectural circles" (Howard Colvin's Biographical Dictionary of British Architects). Based in York (hence his moniker 'Carr of York'), he was "for more than half a century the principal architect practising in Yorkshire and the north of England" (Colvin). His successful and lucrative practice was based very much on country houses for the gentry, the exteriors of which were generally plain but immaculately proportioned and the interiors of which largely followed the fashions set by Robert Adam. He also designed public buildings, churches, and bridges, the latter in his capacity as Surveyor of Bridges for the West Riding (1760-73), and later, as the equivalent (but better-paid) for the North Riding. Carr was also actively engaged in civic life, serving as a city chamberlain, sheriff, alderman, Lord Mayor, and magistrate. All this was achieved in the absence of any professional training - like his father, grandfather and great grandfather before him he trained as a stonemason. On his death, the practice was inherited by his assistant, Peter Atkinson, whose son in turn inherited, and remarkably the practice continues to this day, currently in the guise of Brierley Groom, making it, according to Wikipedia, "the longest running practice in the United Kingdom and probably the world."

Looking down towards some of the now converted working buildings and stables at the rear of Huthwaite Hall. The old railway tunnel must be directly underground at this point.

Huthwaite Hall, Thurgoland, 1748; architect John Carr - see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Carr_(architect)

This view looks back towards the recent converted farm buildings at Huthwaite Hall. A tunnel that carries the Trans-Pennine Trail lies beneath the farm track at this point.

Along the Trans Pennine trail.