Broadbottom Arches Railway Viaduct is a Grade II listed building in the Tameside local planning authority area, England. First listed on 6 February 1986. Railway viaduct. 1 related planning application.
Broadbottom Arches Railway Viaduct
- WRENN ID
- solitary-arch-clover
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Tameside
- Constituency
- Stalybridge and Hyde MP: Jonathan Reynolds (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 6 February 1986
- Type
- Railway viaduct
- OS grid reference
- SJ 994 937
- Coordinates
- 53.4407, -2.01026
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Broadbottom Arches Railway Viaduct is a railway viaduct built in 1842, designed by engineer C.B. Vignoles for the Sheffield, Ashton-under-Lyne & Manchester Railway. It is constructed of rock-faced stone with ashlar dressings and features a total of 19 arches, including one skew arch (No. 3). The semi-circular brick arches are supported by square piers that have ashlar springing bands. The skew arch is made of rock-faced stone and includes rusticated voussoirs along with square flanking projections. Arches 7 to 11 are widened to the south using engineering brick. The parapet wall is adorned with an ashlar band and coping.
Local climate
Broadbottom Arches 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 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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