Railway Viaduct is a Grade II listed building in the Chorley local planning authority area, England. First listed on 21 February 1984. Viaduct. 1 related planning application.

Railway Viaduct

WRENN ID
ruined-joist-weasel
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Chorley
Constituency
Chorley MP: Sir Lindsay Hoyle (Spk)
Country
England
Date first listed
21 February 1984
Type
Viaduct
Address
Railway Viaduct, Hoggs Lane
OS grid reference
SD 594 163
Coordinates
53.64233, -2.61483
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The railway viaduct, built around 1840, carries the Bolton and Preston railway over Black Brook and is likely designed by J. Alexander Adie. It is constructed from punched gritstone and features eight rounded arches with rock-faced voussoirs supported by rectangular piers, which are particularly high in the center and topped with moulded caps. The structure lacks coping and has a modern concrete parapet.

Local climate

Railway Viaduct sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,110 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 88% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 82% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 38 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 73% of listed buildings. Of these, 20 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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