Pontburn Viaduct is a Grade II listed building in the County Durham local planning authority area, England. First listed on 21 January 1987. Railway viaduct.

Pontburn Viaduct

WRENN ID
lone-wall-crow
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
County Durham
Constituency
Blaydon and Consett MP: Liz Twist (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
21 January 1987
Type
Railway viaduct
Address
Pontburn Viaduct, B6310
OS grid reference
NZ 145 563
Coordinates
54.90131, -1.77426
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Pontburn Viaduct is a railway viaduct built in 1867 for the Derwent Valley Branch of the North Eastern Railway. It features thin courses of sandstone with yellow brick dressings and consists of ten round arches, each 60 feet wide, supported by tapered piers. The structure stands 120 feet high and has a 20th-century parapet. It is now part of the Derwent Walk and is partly located in the parish of Consett.

Local climate

Pontburn Viaduct receives an average of 850 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 58% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 99% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 45 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 86% of listed buildings. Of these, 27 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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