School Aycliffe Lane overbridge is a Grade II listed building in the County Durham local planning authority area, England. First listed on 2 February 2022. Railway overbridge.
School Aycliffe Lane overbridge
- WRENN ID
- watchful-ashlar-kestrel
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- County Durham
- Constituency
- Newton Aycliffe and Spennymoor MP: Alan Strickland (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 2 February 2022
- Type
- Railway overbridge
- OS grid reference
- NZ 269 240
- Coordinates
- 54.61048, -1.58416
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The School Aycliffe Lane overbridge is a railway overbridge designed by Thomas Storey for the Stockton & Darlington Railway, built in 1832 and widened on its northern side in the 1980s. It is constructed from rock-faced ashlar sandstone.
The bridge features a single basket arch on its original southern elevation, made of voussoirs, designed to accommodate a dual-track railway line. A roll-moulded string course runs at impost level, forming an arch ring around the voussoirs, which merges into a more pronounced string course that marks the base of the parapet. The arch is flanked by plain pilasters, and the parapets are topped with triangular coping, with the northern parapet having been rebuilt. The northern half of the bridge deck is supported by horizontal bridging beams, which partly obscure the original northern elevation of the bridge.
Local climate
School Aycliffe Lane overbridge receives an average of 800 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 53% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 88% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 42 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 81% of listed buildings. Of these, 24 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.
Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.
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