Nantwich Aqueduct is a Grade II* listed building in the Cheshire East local planning authority area, England. First listed on 7 January 1991. Aqueduct. 2 related planning applications.
Nantwich Aqueduct
- WRENN ID
- winter-cupola-rye
- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- Cheshire East
- Constituency
- Chester South and Eddisbury MP: Aphra Brandreth (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 7 January 1991
- Type
- Aqueduct
- Address
- Nantwich Aqueduct, Chester Road, Burland and Acton, CW5 5GH
- OS grid reference
- SJ 642 525
- Coordinates
- 53.06925, -2.5357
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Nantwich Aqueduct is an aqueduct that carries the main line of the Shropshire Union Canal over Chester to Nantwich Road. It was built around 1826, with design contributions from the consultant T. Telford. The structure features stone dressed brick abutments and a cast-iron trough. It has a cast iron segmental arch with a ribbed soffit, and the spandrels are adorned with triangular sunken panels and five flange-bolted panels at trough level. The bridge arch rests on moulded stone imposts that extend across the faces of stone pilasters flanking the carriageway opening. These pilasters rise to form square piers topped with four-way weathered caps, situated above a projecting band at parapet level. The piers support a cast-iron balustrade that spans over the highway and atop the curved embankment retaining walls. The impost continues as a string course along the embankment wall, while the pier base bands serve as coping. The curved, horizontal sections of the embankment wall end in pilasters and piers that mirror those flanking the carriageway opening.
Local climate
Nantwich Aqueduct receives an average of 870 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 62% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 63% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 39 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 75% of listed buildings. Of these, 20 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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- Related listed building consents — 2 applications
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