Railway Viaduct and Retaining Walls at Junction with Greengate is a Grade II listed building in the Salford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 20 October 1998. Railway viaduct, retaining walls. 6 related planning applications.
Railway Viaduct and Retaining Walls at Junction with Greengate
- WRENN ID
- waning-window-pine
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Salford
- Constituency
- Salford MP: Rebecca Long Bailey (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 20 October 1998
- Type
- Railway viaduct, retaining walls
- Address
- Railway Viaduct and Retaining Walls at Junction with Greengate, Chapel Street
- OS grid reference
- SJ 837 988
- Coordinates
- 53.48574, -2.24634
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The railway viaduct and retaining walls at the junction with Greengate in Salford were built around 1840. They consist of two railway bridges and a linking retaining wall that forms the bridge abutments. The structure is made of ashlar and cast iron. The raking retaining wall is divided by rusticated piers into bays featuring archways with stressed voussoirs on Chapel Street, extending to Greengate. Above the cornice, the piers also separate the plain parapet. There is a low relief carved coat of arms of the City of Salford above the archway on the Greengate return. The wall supports the railway viaduct and connects the two bridges over Greengate and Chapel Street, serving as their abutments. The bridge decks are supported by transverse iron beams, with cast-iron parapets; the panels over Greengate are solid with simple moulded decoration, while those over Chapel Street feature traceried openwork.
Local climate
Railway Viaduct and Retaining Walls at Junction with Greengate 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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- Radon risk assessment
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