 In September 2006, the property was being marketed for sale at a price of £775,000.The Victoria Tunnel was built to transport coal from Spital Tongues Colliery, opened in 1836, to the river Tyne.long and up to deep, the tunnel was built by 200 men between 1839 and 1842, and came about as a result of the owners, Latimer and Porter, being refused permission to build a surface wagonway across the moor and city.