Railway Viaduct is a Grade II listed building in the Rochdale local planning authority area, England. First listed on 23 April 1986. A Victorian Infrastructure. 2 related planning applications.
Railway Viaduct
- WRENN ID
- mired-spandrel-swift
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Rochdale
- Constituency
- Rochdale MP: Paul Waugh (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 23 April 1986
- Type
- Infrastructure
- Period
- Victorian
- Address
- Railway Viaduct, Halifax Road
- OS grid reference
- SD 939 163
- Coordinates
- 53.64369, -2.09317
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Railway Viaduct, built in 1839 for the Manchester Leeds Railway Company, is an important landmark in Littleborough. Designed by engineer George Stephenson, it features rock-faced stone construction with a total of six elliptical arches. The northernmost arch is skew and has arched walkways on either side. Each arch includes keystones and rusticated voussoirs, supported by piers with impost blocks. One of the arches has been bricked up in the 20th century. Above the arches, there is a coped parapet over a continuous band, which has been slightly altered on the west side due to the station platform. The viaduct also has battered terminating piers.
Local climate
Railway Viaduct sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,080 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 86% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 79% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 50 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 92% of listed buildings. Of these, 29 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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- Related listed building consents — 2 applications
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