Manchester and Ashton Under Lyne Canal, Hollinwood Branch Waterhouses Aqueduct is a Grade II listed building in the Oldham local planning authority area, England. First listed on 6 October 1987. Canal aqueduct.
Manchester and Ashton Under Lyne Canal, Hollinwood Branch Waterhouses Aqueduct
- WRENN ID
- secret-baluster-dew
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Oldham
- Constituency
- Manchester Central MP: Lucy Powell (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 6 October 1987
- Type
- Canal aqueduct
- OS grid reference
- SD 921 008
- Coordinates
- 53.50425, -2.12027
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Waterhouses Aqueduct is a canal aqueduct that spans the River Medlock, built between 1792 and 1798. It was engineered by Benjamin Outram and constructed from hammer-dressed stone. The aqueduct features retaining walls that are segmental in plan, with two stone bands, battered square terminating piers, and a parapet wall on the tow-path side only. It has a segmental arch, although the canal itself has since been filled in.
Local climate
Manchester and Ashton Under Lyne Canal, Hollinwood Branch Waterhouses Aqueduct sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,040 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 84% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 76% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 43 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 84% of listed buildings. Of these, 24 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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