Aqueduct South West of Peers Cottages, Strines on Peak Forest Canal is a Grade II listed building in the Stockport local planning authority area, England. First listed on 11 October 1985. Aqueduct.

Aqueduct South West of Peers Cottages, Strines on Peak Forest Canal

WRENN ID
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Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Stockport
Constituency
Hazel Grove MP: Lisa Smart (LD)
Country
England
Date first listed
11 October 1985
Type
Aqueduct
OS grid reference
SJ 969 860
Coordinates
53.37161, -2.04724
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The aqueduct located southwest of Peers Cottages on the Peak Forest Canal was built between 1794 and 1801, with later alterations in the 19th century. It was designed by engineers Benjamin Outram and Thomas Brown. The structure is made of dressed stone and features a skew segmental arch with rock-faced voussoirs. It has concave retaining walls with a parapet on one side only, two rock-faced bands, rounded copings, and rock-faced square terminating piers.

Local climate

Aqueduct South West of Peers Cottages, Strines on Peak Forest Canal 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 83% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 74% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 49 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 91% 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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