Park Parade Railway Viaduct, Western Crossing of the River Tame is a Grade II listed building in the Tameside local planning authority area, England. First listed on 6 February 1986. Viaduct.
Park Parade Railway Viaduct, Western Crossing of the River Tame
- WRENN ID
- floating-chapel-poplar
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Tameside
- Constituency
- Ashton-under-Lyne MP: Angela Rayner (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 6 February 1986
- Type
- Viaduct
- OS grid reference
- SJ 934 982
- Coordinates
- 53.48081, -2.10015
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Park Parade Railway Viaduct, built around 1845, crosses the River Tame. It is constructed from rock-faced stone and brick and features three segmental arches. Each arch is adorned with rusticated voussoirs and is supported by a square pier that has a shaped cutwater and a springing band. The brick parapet includes an ashlar band and coping, with square piers at each end.
Local climate
Park Parade Railway Viaduct, Western Crossing of the River Tame 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 76% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 43 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 84% of listed buildings. Of these, 24 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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