British Rail East Coast Main Line. Railway Viaduct Over River Wansbeck is a Grade II listed building in the Northumberland local planning authority area, England. First listed on 29 April 1987. Railway viaduct.
British Rail East Coast Main Line. Railway Viaduct Over River Wansbeck
- WRENN ID
- former-lantern-ochre
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Northumberland
- Constituency
- North Northumberland MP: David Smith (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 29 April 1987
- Type
- Railway viaduct
- Address
- British Rail East Coast Main Line. Railway Viaduct Over River Wansbeck, Pegswood
- OS grid reference
- NZ 214 864
- Coordinates
- 55.17213, -1.66404
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The railway viaduct over the River Wansbeck is a Grade II listed structure built in 1847 for the York, Newcastle and Berwick railway. It was designed by engineers Robert Stephenson and T E Harrison. The viaduct is constructed from rock-faced stone with tooled ashlar dressings and features nine segmental arches supported by tall tapering piers, which have rounded cutwaters on the river side. It also includes a moulded impost band and rusticated voussoirs. The southern part of the viaduct is located within the Morpeth municipal boundary.
Local climate
British Rail East Coast Main Line. Railway Viaduct Over River Wansbeck 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 71% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 20 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 78% of listed buildings. Of these, 13 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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