Viaduct Over Weaver Navigation, Number 54 is a Grade II listed building in the Cheshire West and Chester local planning authority area, England. First listed on 6 December 1985. A C19 Viaduct.
Viaduct Over Weaver Navigation, Number 54
- WRENN ID
- stranded-threshold-starling
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cheshire West and Chester
- Constituency
- Runcorn and Helsby MP: Sarah Pochin (RUK)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 6 December 1985
- Type
- Viaduct
- Address
- Viaduct Over Weaver Navigation, Number 54, Frodsham
- OS grid reference
- SJ 533 790
- Coordinates
- 53.30598, -2.70134
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The viaduct over Weaver Navigation, known as Number 54, was built between 1848 and 1850. It was designed by engineer Alexander Rendel and constructed by contractor Thomas Brassey for the Birkenhead, Lancashire and Cheshire Junction Railway Company. The structure is made of brown brick and cast iron, featuring a segmental-arched cast iron span that measures approximately 25 meters and stands about 28 meters above the water level of the navigation. On each side, there is a lower round brick arch topped with a doubly-recessed rectangular panel. The viaduct has square abutments and four rectangular buttresses on each face. It includes moulded cornices, moulded stone imposts at the central span, and moulded copings. A reinforced concrete tract-bed has been added above the cast iron arch, which somewhat detracts from the overall appearance of this otherwise handsome and symmetrical viaduct.
Local climate
Viaduct Over Weaver Navigation, Number 54 receives an average of 940 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 72% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 59% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 32 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 58% of listed buildings. Of these, 15 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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