Railway Bridge is a Grade II listed building in the Wigan local planning authority area, England. First listed on 8 December 1999. Bridge. 1 related planning application.
Railway Bridge
- WRENN ID
- weathered-brass-vale
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Wigan
- Constituency
- Wigan MP: Lisa Nandy (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 8 December 1999
- Type
- Bridge
- Address
- Railway Bridge, Frog Lane, WN2 4XL
- OS grid reference
- SD 577 058
- Coordinates
- 53.54758, -2.63947
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The railway bridge over Frog Lane in Wigan was likely built around 1838 for the North Union Railway Company. It is constructed of sandstone ashlar with rock-faced abutments and features a skew design. The bridge has a large semicircular arch made of run-out rusticated voussoirs, a chamfered band, and parapets that include central and terminal piers, topped with flat coping.
Local climate
Railway Bridge 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 35 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 54% of listed buildings. Of these, 18 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
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
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- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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