British Railways Viaduct is a Grade II listed building in the Burnley local planning authority area, England. Viaduct. 2 related planning applications.
British Railways Viaduct
- WRENN ID
- sharp-courtyard-willow
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Burnley
- Constituency
- Burnley MP: Oliver Ryan (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Type
- Viaduct
- Address
- British Railways Viaduct, Ashfield Road, BB12 0QZ
- OS grid reference
- SD 837 329
- Coordinates
- 53.79258, -2.24829
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The British Railways Viaduct is a railway viaduct built between 1847 and 1848 for the East Lancashire Railway Company. It is constructed from coursed rock-faced sandstone blocks with freestone dressings and red brick soffits to the arches. The viaduct runs in a straight line for approximately 400 meters and features 15 semicircular arches with rusticated voussoirs. These arches are supported by slightly battered piers that have plain impost bands around them, along with a continuous chamfered cornice and low coped parapets, which are partially damaged. The viaduct is a prominent and striking feature in the urban landscape, blocking the view to the north-east from the town center. It is part of a group with the Clifton Street railway bridge located about 100 meters to the west.
Local climate
British Railways Viaduct sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,250 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 93% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 87% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 58 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 97% of listed buildings. Of these, 34 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 — 2 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- 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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