Railway overbridge MVL3/17, Roughtown Road is a Grade II listed building in the Tameside local planning authority area, England. First listed on 23 March 2018. Bridge.
Railway overbridge MVL3/17, Roughtown Road
- WRENN ID
- leaning-clay-fen
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Tameside
- Constituency
- Stalybridge and Hyde MP: Jonathan Reynolds (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 23 March 2018
- Type
- Bridge
- OS grid reference
- SD 977 028
- Coordinates
- 53.52217, -2.0358
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The railway overbridge, built between 1845 and 1849 by AS Jee for the Huddersfield & Manchester Railway, carries Roughtown Road across the railway to the east of Mossley Station. The bridge features a single segmental-arched span set between battered abutments, with the deck sloping down towards the south due to the gradients.
Constructed from buff sandstone, 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 twice-weathered parapet copings are all dressed. The abutments curve slightly outward at the corners and end in slender piers topped with shallow, pyramidal caps. The arch soffit is made of narrow-coursed masonry with detailed tooling.
The road surface is tarmac, and in the south-west corner, a short section of parapet copings has been rendered. Additionally, a short cement kerb with modern bollards has been added next to the inner face of the south-west corner.
Local climate
Railway overbridge MVL3/17, Roughtown Road 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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