Macclesfield Canal Canal Road Aqueduct is a Grade II listed building in the Cheshire East local planning authority area, England. First listed on 4 April 1975. Aqueduct.
Macclesfield Canal Canal Road Aqueduct
- WRENN ID
- tired-sentry-ebony
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cheshire East
- Constituency
- Congleton MP: Sarah Russell (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 4 April 1975
- Type
- Aqueduct
- Address
- Macclesfield Canal Canal Road Aqueduct, Congleton
- OS grid reference
- SJ 866 621
- Coordinates
- 53.15654, -2.20131
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Macclesfield Canal Canal Road Aqueduct, built in 1831 by W. Crosley, is a Grade II listed structure that carries the Macclesfield Canal over Canal Road. It features stone abutments with a cast iron trough and a cast iron segmental arch with a ribbed soffit. The spandrels have triangular sunken panels and five flange bolted panels at trough level. The rusticated sandstone abutments have moulded imposts that support plain stone piers with a projecting band. These piers end in panelled sections at parapet level, which have projecting plinths and four-way weathered caps that flank the cast iron balustrade above the highway. Curved embankment retaining walls on either side continue the impost moulding as the plinth cornice and the pier band as the coping.
Local climate
Macclesfield Canal Canal Road Aqueduct 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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