Dene Beck Culvert is a Grade II listed building in the Darlington local planning authority area, England. First listed on 31 March 2023. Culvert.
Dene Beck Culvert
- WRENN ID
- fossil-marble-mallow
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Darlington
- Constituency
- Darlington MP: Lola McEvoy (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 31 March 2023
- Type
- Culvert
- OS grid reference
- NZ 275 200
- Coordinates
- 54.57534, -1.5759
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Dene Beck Culvert is a culvert located beneath a railway embankment, designed by George Stephenson for the Stockton & Darlington Railway in 1825. It is constructed from coursed and ashlar sandstone.
The western portal of the culvert is designed similarly to a small accommodation bridge. It features a semi-circular arch that is approximately 2 meters high, made with ashlar voussoirs. The spandrels and the flanking terminal piers are constructed from coursed dressed stone. Above the arch, there is a horizontal ashlar stringcourse that marks the base of the parapet, which is also made of finely dressed ashlar stonework. One of the square terminal piers has a moulded cap. Short wing walls made of coursed stone with ashlar coping extend from the piers on either side of the arch.
In contrast, the eastern portal is more simply designed and does not have a parapet. The culvert tunnel itself is not straight; it bends slightly southwards at its eastern end.
Local climate
Dene Beck Culvert 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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