Store Street Aqueduct is a Grade II* listed building in the Manchester local planning authority area, England. First listed on 6 June 1994. A C18 Aqueduct. 1 related planning application.

Store Street Aqueduct

WRENN ID
distant-rubble-cobweb
Grade
II*
Local Planning Authority
Manchester
Constituency
Manchester Central MP: Lucy Powell (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
6 June 1994
Type
Aqueduct
OS grid reference
SJ 850 981
Coordinates
53.47957, -2.22735
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Store Street Aqueduct in Manchester is a canal aqueduct built around 1794 to 1799. It is made of coursed squared sandstone and is approximately 70 meters long. The aqueduct crosses Store Street at about a 45-degree angle and features a skewed semi-elliptical archway, although the soffit is now rendered. On the north side, there are six triangular buttresses that resemble cutwaters with refuges, while the south side has four. The arches are adorned with radiating voussoirs, and there are two decorative bands on the south side and one on the north side, topped with coped parapets. This structure is likely one of the earliest canal aqueducts to feature a skewed arch.

Local climate

Store Street Aqueduct sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,060 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 43 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 84% of listed buildings. Of these, 23 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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