Aqueduct Across Railway is a Grade II listed building in the County Durham local planning authority area, England. First listed on 24 February 1986. Aqueduct.
Aqueduct Across Railway
- WRENN ID
- tired-plinth-elder
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- County Durham
- Constituency
- Bishop Auckland MP: Dr Sam Rushworth (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 24 February 1986
- Type
- Aqueduct
- Address
- Aqueduct Across Railway, Chestnut Close, Shildon
- OS grid reference
- NZ 233 260
- Coordinates
- 54.62884, -1.64014
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The aqueduct across the railway was built in 1842 by Robert Wilson for the Stockton and Darlington Railway Company. It is constructed from ashlar sandstone and features three segmental arches with flush voussoirs, supported by low battered piers that have prominent impost blocks. The structure includes solid end sections. The parapet is defined by a chamfered band and segmental coping, which projects forward above the piers. A stream flows across the open channel and, at the south-west end, enters a semicircular-arched culvert that has a projecting keystone.
Local climate
Aqueduct Across Railway 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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