Stockport Railway Viaduct is a Grade II* listed building in the Stockport local planning authority area, England. First listed on 10 March 1975. Railway viaduct. 2 related planning applications.
Stockport Railway Viaduct
- WRENN ID
- veiled-fireplace-storm
- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- Stockport
- Constituency
- Stockport MP: Navendu Mishra (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 10 March 1975
- Type
- Railway viaduct
- Address
- Stockport Railway Viaduct, Viaduct Street, SK4 1AR
- OS grid reference
- SJ 891 902
- Coordinates
- 53.40893, -2.16536
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Stockport Railway Viaduct is a railway viaduct that opened in 1840, designed by G.W. Buck for the Manchester and Birmingham Railway. It is constructed of brick and stone and features 28 arches, with a total length of over 540 meters. The viaduct has three spans at either end measuring 18 feet, and 22 spans in the middle measuring 63 feet each, reaching a height of nearly 34 meters above the river. It is said to contain 11 million bricks and is adorned with stone capping and a dentil cornice. The piers have stone moulded impost bands and rusticated faces. The construction took 21 months and cost £72,700. The viaduct was widened to the west between 1888 and 1889.
Local climate
Stockport Railway Viaduct 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 84% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 73% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 41 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 79% of listed buildings. Of these, 22 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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- No EPC on record for this property
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- Related listed building consents — 2 applications
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