Twemlow Viaduct is a Grade II listed building in the Cheshire East local planning authority area, England. First listed on 12 March 1987. Viaduct. 1 related planning application.
Twemlow Viaduct
- WRENN ID
- nether-obsidian-bittern
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cheshire East
- Constituency
- Congleton MP: Sarah Russell (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 12 March 1987
- Type
- Viaduct
- Address
- Twemlow Viaduct, Holmes Chapel
- OS grid reference
- SJ 771 677
- Coordinates
- 53.20616, -2.34379
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Twemlow Viaduct is a railway viaduct built in 1841 by G W Buck, who was the Engineer for the Manchester and Birmingham Railway Company. The structure is made of red brick in English Bond and sandstone. It features twenty-three semi-circular arches, each spanning 18 metres, supported by piers that are 3 metres on the face and 8 metres deep. The projecting pier plinths have a weathered vermiculated stone cornice, with the plinths of the two piers closest to the River Dane made entirely of stone and displaying banded rustication. There are ogee moulded stone impost bands, and the arches are constructed with 8 bricks deep, some featuring brick-on-edge rings. A plain stone parapet rests on a projecting two-course deep brick band, which is supported by a cornice made from a chamfered stone band and a massive dentil cornice. The viaduct carries the electrified railway from Manchester to Crewe.
Local climate
Twemlow Viaduct sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 970 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 75% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 56% 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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- No EPC on record for this property
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- Related listed building consents — 1 application
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