Abutments and Retaining Walls to Road Bridge Over Line to West and South of Hexham Railway Station is a Grade II listed building in the Northumberland local planning authority area, England. First listed on 22 February 1988. Bridge.

Abutments and Retaining Walls to Road Bridge Over Line to West and South of Hexham Railway Station

WRENN ID
grey-vault-pearl
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Northumberland
Constituency
Hexham MP: Joe Morris (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
22 February 1988
Type
Bridge
OS grid reference
NY 939 643
Coordinates
54.97384, -2.09673
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The structure consists of the abutments and retaining walls for a road bridge over the Newcastle-Carlisle railway line, located to the west and south of Hexham Railway Station. Built in 1847 at the request of the local Turnpike Trust, it features coursed sandstone rubble with rockfaced piers placed at intervals. These piers extend over a rockfaced-and-margined band at roadbed level and continue as dressed-stone buttresses that end in flattened-pyramidal tops, just above the level of the slightly-chamfered parapet coping. The bridge abutments include projecting offset dressed-stone buttresses. Although the bridge itself has been replaced with modern riveted steel, an arched opening through the south-western arm provides access to open land to the west, and a cart ramp leads from the northern arm into fields to the north-west.

Local climate

Abutments and Retaining Walls to Road Bridge Over Line to West and South of Hexham Railway Station receives an average of 920 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 70% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 70% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 48 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 90% of listed buildings. Of these, 29 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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