The Railway Viaduct is a Grade II listed building in the Cheshire East local planning authority area, England. Viaduct.

The Railway Viaduct

WRENN ID
ancient-rampart-sepia
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Cheshire East
Constituency
Congleton MP: Sarah Russell (Lab)
Country
England
Type
Viaduct
Address
The Railway Viaduct, Dane in Shaw Brook, Congleton
OS grid reference
SJ 876 627
Coordinates
53.16147, -2.18594
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Railway Viaduct, built around 1849, is a tall brick structure featuring ten round arches supported by rectangular piers. It has a cornice at the top of the parapet and additional cornices at the heads of the piers. Constructed from blue and brown engineering bricks, the viaduct stands at a height of 130 feet.

Local climate

The Railway 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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