Hewenden Viaduct is a Grade II listed building in the Bradford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 18 October 1985. Viaduct.
Hewenden Viaduct
- WRENN ID
- heavy-mortar-spring
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Bradford
- Constituency
- Shipley MP: Anna Dixon (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 18 October 1985
- Type
- Viaduct
- Address
- Hewenden Viaduct, Wilsden
- OS grid reference
- SE 075 358
- Coordinates
- 53.81848, -1.88729
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Hewenden Viaduct is a railway viaduct built around 1880, likely designed by engineer Richard Johnson. It is constructed from hammer-dressed and rock-faced stone and features 17 semicircular arches that rise 120 feet high, each spanning 50 feet. The arches are supported by tall rock-faced stone piers, with the piers flanking the central five arches being thicker and featuring projecting pilasters. There is a band and parapet that includes seven projecting retreats, as well as abutments at either end. The viaduct formerly carried the Great Northern railway line from Bradford to Keighley.
Local climate
Hewenden Viaduct sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,030 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 83% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 76% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 50 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 92% of listed buildings. Of these, 29 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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