Congleton Viaduct is a Grade II listed building in the Cheshire East local planning authority area, England. First listed on 4 April 1975. Viaduct. 1 related planning application.
Congleton Viaduct
- WRENN ID
- roaming-chimney-honey
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cheshire East
- Constituency
- Congleton MP: Sarah Russell (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 4 April 1975
- Type
- Viaduct
- Address
- Congleton Viaduct, North Rode
- OS grid reference
- SJ 896 657
- Coordinates
- 53.18887, -2.15626
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Congleton Viaduct is a railway viaduct built in 1849 by the engineer J C Forsyth for the North Staffordshire Railway, with John Mellor of Rainow as the stonemason. The structure is made of English bond red and blue engineering bricks with stone dressings. It features twenty round arches supported by rectangular piers that have slightly projecting plinths. Some piers have stone supports for centering on their inner faces. The third and thirteenth piers are later additions and have stone facings with pitted rustication on their outer faces. Above these piers, there is a brick bond supporting an ashlar string course and an ashlar parapet. The larger part of the viaduct is located in Congleton Municipal Borough. The viaduct was previously listed twice under a different entry in the parish of North Rode.
Local climate
Congleton Viaduct sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 990 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 79% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 61% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 48 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 89% 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
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- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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