Railway Bridge by Kearsley Station is a Grade II listed building in the Bolton local planning authority area, England. First listed on 19 August 1986. A Victorian Bridge. 2 related planning applications.
Railway Bridge by Kearsley Station
- WRENN ID
- ragged-casement-winter
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Bolton
- Constituency
- Bolton South and Walkden MP: Yasmin Qureshi (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 19 August 1986
- Type
- Bridge
- Period
- Victorian
- Address
- Railway Bridge by Kearsley Station, Stoneclough Road
- OS grid reference
- SD 752 053
- Coordinates
- 53.54391, -2.37424
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The railway bridge by Kearsley Station was built in 1837 by Jesse Hartley for the Manchester and Bolton Railway. It is constructed of rock-faced stone and features an elliptical arch with a fielded panel above. The bridge has a corbelled parapet made of dressed stone, and the raking abutments have tumbled-in coping. On the north-east side, there are later iron strainer beams.
Local climate
Railway Bridge by Kearsley Station sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,050 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 85% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 77% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 39 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 75% of listed buildings. Of these, 21 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 — 2 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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