Listed Building: TRENT AND MERSEY CANAL SOUTH PORTAL OF PRESTON BROOK TUNNEL (1261904)

ASTON BY SUTTON C.P. TRENT AND MERSEY CANAL SJ 57 NE 3/52 South portal of Preston Brook Tunnel. II Canal Tunnel mouth, circa 1777 by James Brindley, of stone-dressed dark brick. Narrow elliptical opening has ring of-rusticated stone voussoirs, 3 replaced in brick with concrete insert at base of left side. Plain stone band at ground level above arch; flush stone coping; plain rectangular end piers, sandstone wing walls with projecting stone copings. Above the tunnel mouth keystone a plain flush stone is inscribed PRESTON TUNNEL. The tunnel has no towpath; the horse track crosses the canal immediately behind the portal. Listing NGR: SJ5741778843