Whalley Viaduct is a Grade II listed building in the Ribble Valley local planning authority area, England. First listed on 13 March 1986. Viaduct. 4 related planning applications.
Whalley Viaduct
- WRENN ID
- half-pediment-twilight
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Ribble Valley
- Constituency
- Pendle and Clitheroe MP: Jonathan Hinder (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 13 March 1986
- Type
- Viaduct
- OS grid reference
- SD 728 362
- Coordinates
- 53.82195, -2.41387
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Whalley Viaduct is a railway viaduct on the Bolton, Blackburn, Clitheroe and West Yorkshire Railway, which opened in 1850. It was engineered by Flannagan and is constructed from red and blue brick. The structure features 48 round arches supported by battered piers. At the point where Ridding Lane passes through, near the north-west gateway of the Abbey, the opening has concentric brick arches and moulded stone imposts. On each side of this opening, there is an arch filled with brickwork that includes a blind lancet recess. Part of this viaduct is located in Whalley civil parish.
Local climate
Whalley Viaduct sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,280 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 94% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 89% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 51 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 93% of listed buildings. Of these, 28 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 — 4 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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