Croston Station Bridge is a Grade II listed building in the Chorley local planning authority area, England. First listed on 11 January 2021. Railway overbridge.
Croston Station Bridge
- WRENN ID
- mired-groin-stoat
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Chorley
- Constituency
- South Ribble MP: Mr Paul Foster (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 11 January 2021
- Type
- Railway overbridge
- Address
- Croston Station Bridge, Bretherton Road, Leyland, Lancashire, PR26 9HZ
- OS grid reference
- SD 487 193
- Coordinates
- 53.66779, -2.77769
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Croston Station Bridge is a railway overbridge built around 1846 by Messrs Mackenzie, Brassey and Stephenson for the Liverpool, Ormskirk and Preston Railway line. It is constructed from sandstone and features a single-span, rock-faced design oriented on an east-west axis over the Croston railway line. The bridge has an elliptical arch made of voussoirs, spanning approximately 8.8 meters, and includes a chamfered string band positioned below capped parapet walls, supported by two pilaster strip abutments on either side of the arch. The south elevation displays masonry blocked openings at both the east and west ends, which were once access points to the platforms below. The barrel arch is made of red brick, and its abutments feature a dressed string band at the spring level of the arch. An east platform is situated against the arch abutment, and the roadway has 20th-century pavements on either side of the tarmac road.
Local climate
Croston Station Bridge sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,240 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 92% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 23 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 76% of listed buildings. Of these, 10 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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