Railway overbridge MVL3/23, Wright's is a Grade II listed building in the Oldham local planning authority area, England. First listed on 23 March 2018. Bridge.
Railway overbridge MVL3/23, Wright's
- WRENN ID
- solemn-lantern-bramble
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Oldham
- Constituency
- Oldham East and Saddleworth MP: Debbie Abrahams (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 23 March 2018
- Type
- Bridge
- OS grid reference
- SD 981 041
- Coordinates
- 53.53386, -2.03002
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The railway overbridge, built between 1845 and 1849 by A.S. Jee for the Huddersfield & Manchester Railway, is constructed from buff sandstone. It carries a footpath from the north-west to the south-east across the railway and slopes down towards the south-east due to the gradients.
The bridge features a single segmental-arched span set between battered abutments on either side of a steep cutting, along with a parapet. The stonework is regular-coursed and quarry-faced, with the stone of the arch piers and the voussoirs having tooled margins. The keystone is positioned to break the arch both above and below. Dressed features include the impost bands, a sloping string course above the arch, and the chamfered-and-weathered copings of the parapet. The abutments curve slightly outward at all four corners and end in slender piers topped with shallow, pyramidal caps. The arch soffit is made of narrow-coursed masonry with tooled detailing. At the time of the survey in 2017, the road surface was heavily overgrown.
Local climate
Railway overbridge MVL3/23, Wright's sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,030 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 83% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 75% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 47 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 88% of listed buildings. Of these, 27 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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