Railway overbridge MVL3/20, Wright's Mill is a Grade II listed building in the Tameside local planning authority area, England. First listed on 23 March 2018. Railway overbridge.
Railway overbridge MVL3/20, Wright's Mill
- WRENN ID
- tenth-clay-cream
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Tameside
- Constituency
- Stalybridge and Hyde MP: Jonathan Reynolds (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 23 March 2018
- Type
- Railway overbridge
- OS grid reference
- SD 978 036
- Coordinates
- 53.52954, -2.03375
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The railway overbridge at Wright's Mill was built between 1845 and 1849 by A.S. Jee for the Huddersfield & Manchester Railway. It is made of buff sandstone and carries a footpath that crosses the railway from east to west, sloping down towards the east due to the gradients.
The bridge features a single segmental-arched span set between battered abutments on either side of a steep cutting, complete with a parapet. The stonework is regular-coursed and quarry-faced. The arch piers and voussoirs have tooled margins, with the keystone positioned above and below the arch. The impost bands, a sloping string course above the arch, and the chamfered and weathered parapet copings are all dressed. The abutments curve slightly outward at all four corners and end in slender piers topped with shallow, pyramidal caps. The arch soffit is made of narrow-coursed masonry with detailed tooling. At the time of the survey in 2017, the road surface was heavily overgrown.
Local climate
Railway overbridge MVL3/20, Wright's Mill sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,030 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 75% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 47 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 88% of listed buildings. Of these, 27 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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