Southern Railway Viaduct and Colonnade is a Grade II* listed building in the Salford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 18 January 1980. Viaduct. 4 related planning applications.
Southern Railway Viaduct and Colonnade
- WRENN ID
- seventh-postern-rain
- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- Salford
- Constituency
- Salford MP: Rebecca Long Bailey (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 18 January 1980
- Type
- Viaduct
- Address
- Southern Railway Viaduct and Colonnade, New Bailey Street, M3 5FS
- OS grid reference
- SJ 832 984
- Coordinates
- 53.48294, -2.25446
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Southern Railway Viaduct and Colonnade is a railway viaduct built in 1844 by engineer Sir John Hawkshaw for the Liverpool and Manchester Railway. It features cast-iron columns that support I-section girders and a cast-iron parapet. The massive cast-iron columns are adorned with capitals shaped like Egyptian lotus flowers. While the parapet is mostly plain along the colonnade, it is more decorative where it forms a bridge over New Bailey Street, featuring fluted pilasters with acanthus capitals and a frieze.
Local climate
Southern Railway Viaduct and Colonnade 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 81% 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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- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2006
- Related listed building consents — 4 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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