Canal aqueduct over Roddlesworth Water is a Grade II listed building in the Blackburn with Darwen local planning authority area, England. Aqueduct.
Canal aqueduct over Roddlesworth Water
- WRENN ID
- gaunt-rafter-elm
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Blackburn with Darwen
- Constituency
- Blackburn MP: Mr Adnan Hussain (Ind)
- Country
- England
- Type
- Aqueduct
- Address
- Canal aqueduct over Roddlesworth Water, Livesey
- OS grid reference
- SD 644 245
- Coordinates
- 53.71606, -2.53964
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The canal aqueduct over Roddlesworth Water, built between 1811 and 1814, carries the Leeds-Liverpool Canal across the river. The supervising engineers were Joseph and James Fletcher, and the contractors were Hiram Craven and Samuel Whitaker, who were masons from Keighley.
The aqueduct is supported by a long embankment that features an egg-shaped culvert with stone-faced abutments, which is the part that is listed. The structure is made of rusticated rock-faced sandstone. The walls curve inward to create a semicircular shape, are strongly battered, and rise in a continuous curve above the mouth of the culvert. There are low piers at the outer ends, with radiating masonry and a keystone over the arch, flanked by buttressing piers. At the top, there is a projecting band. Some decorative elements are visible, including band stones with punched faces, and the parts of the buttresses that are not covered by moss show simple vermiculated patterns.
Local climate
Canal aqueduct over Roddlesworth Water sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,200 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 91% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 86% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 44 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 85% 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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