Accommodation Arch Under Former Railway for Road to Knitsley is a Grade II listed building in the County Durham local planning authority area, England. First listed on 1 October 1986. Accommodation arch.
Accommodation Arch Under Former Railway for Road to Knitsley
- WRENN ID
- moated-vestry-ivy
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- County Durham
- Constituency
- North Durham MP: Luke Akehurst (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 1 October 1986
- Type
- Accommodation arch
- Address
- Accommodation Arch Under Former Railway for Road to Knitsley, A692, Healeyfield
- OS grid reference
- NZ 098 493
- Coordinates
- 54.83901, -1.84743
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This accommodation arch, likely built between 1832 and 1834 by T.E. Harrison, who was a consultant engineer for R. Stephenson, was constructed for the Stanhope and Tyne Railroad Company. It is made of irregular courses of squared sandstone rubble with ashlar dressings. The arch is tall and round, featuring voussoirs beneath a parapet with block coping. On either side, there are flanking retaining walls that have plain flat coping and end in low rectangular piers. The embankment that this arch supported previously connected to the Hownes Gill incline, which was replaced by a viaduct in 1858.
Local climate
Accommodation Arch Under Former Railway for Road to Knitsley receives an average of 860 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 61% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 98% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 51 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 92% of listed buildings. Of these, 32 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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