Railway Viaduct is a Grade II listed building in the Sheffield local planning authority area, England. First listed on 12 December 1995. A Victorian Viaduct.

Railway Viaduct

WRENN ID
under-corbel-equinox
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Sheffield
Constituency
Sheffield Brightside and Hillsborough MP: Gill Furniss (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
12 December 1995
Type
Viaduct
Period
Victorian
Address
Railway Viaduct, Herries Road
OS grid reference
SK 337 907
Coordinates
53.41265, -1.49306
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The railway viaduct, built in 1845, was designed by Joseph Locke for the Sheffield, Ashton under Lyne and Manchester Railway Company. It features rock-faced stone with brick arches and ashlar dressings. The structure includes three main round arches with voussoirs, supported by piers and buttresses. On either side of the main arches, there is a smaller arch that is similar in design. The viaduct also has oval plates for wall ties, a string course, and a coped parapet wall that is topped with a wrought-iron railing. This viaduct is an important example of early monumental railway architecture.

Local climate

Railway Viaduct receives an average of 890 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 65% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 53% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 39 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 76% of listed buildings. Of these, 21 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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