Sankey Viaduct Over Sankey Brook is a Grade I listed building in the Warrington local planning authority area, England. First listed on 3 February 1966. A 1830 Viaduct. 13 related planning applications.
Sankey Viaduct Over Sankey Brook
- WRENN ID
- secret-iron-alder
- Grade
- I
- Local Planning Authority
- Warrington
- Constituency
- St Helens North MP: David Baines (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 3 February 1966
- Type
- Viaduct
- Address
- Sankey Viaduct Over Sankey Brook, Bradley Lane, Burtonwood and Westbrook, L34 6JQ
- OS grid reference
- SJ 568 947
- Coordinates
- 53.44745, -2.65077
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Sankey Viaduct over Sankey Brook is a railway viaduct built in 1830 by George Stephenson for the Liverpool and Manchester Railway Company. It is constructed from yellow sandstone and red brick, featuring nine round-arched spans supported by sharply-battered piers. The structure has rusticated ashlar faces and stone-banded brick jambs, with plinths consisting of three steps. Each jamb has a projecting band, and the plain, square imposts support heavily moulded cornices that carry stone parapets topped with plain square caps. Each pier has a corbelled square pilaster that supports the cornice, while the battered, curved abutments made of brick have stone quoins at their inner ends.
The viaduct is listed as Grade I because it is the earliest major railway viaduct in the world, and its design and construction influenced later viaducts by George Stephenson and Joseph Locke, such as those at Dutton and Vale Royal, which carried the former Grand Junction Railway over the Weaver valley. Part of this viaduct is located in Cheshire.
Local climate
Sankey Viaduct Over Sankey Brook sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,000 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 80% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 63% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 31 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 61% 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 13 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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