Canal Aqueduct Over Palmerston Street is a Grade II listed building in the Cheshire East local planning authority area, England. First listed on 17 March 1966. Aqueduct.

Canal Aqueduct Over Palmerston Street

WRENN ID
second-basalt-equinox
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Cheshire East
Constituency
Macclesfield MP: Tim Roca (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
17 March 1966
Type
Aqueduct
Address
Canal Aqueduct Over Palmerston Street, Bollington
OS grid reference
SJ 933 779
Coordinates
53.29808, -2.10065
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The canal aqueduct over Palmerston Street, built around 1830 by William Crosley for the Macclesfield Canal Company, is a notable structure made of hammer-dressed buff sandstone with ashlar dressings. It features horseshoe-shaped arches with raised keystones at the ends of a barrel vault. At the base of the vault, rough through stones project. The short wing walls curve to become perpendicular to the aqueduct and terminate in raking square pilasters, both of which have a chamfered projecting band and a plain parapet with rounded coping above. The wing walls extend down as revetment walls to ground level, where they end with a square pier. There are plain rectangular settings for plaques, which are now missing, above each arch.

Local climate

Canal Aqueduct Over Palmerston Street sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,040 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 83% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 70% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 47 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 88% 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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