Bottom Viaduct is a Grade II listed building in the Calderdale local planning authority area, England. First listed on 2 December 1983. Railway viaduct.
Bottom Viaduct
- WRENN ID
- winter-baluster-dust
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Calderdale
- Constituency
- Calder Valley MP: Josh Fenton-Glynn (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 2 December 1983
- Type
- Railway viaduct
- Address
- Bottom Viaduct, Rookes Lane
- OS grid reference
- SE 138 259
- Coordinates
- 53.72961, -1.79107
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Bottom Viaduct is a railway viaduct built in 1850 for the Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway, designed by John Hawkshaw. It is constructed of snecked rubble and features 11 semi-circular arches supported by tall piers, each spanning 40 feet and rising to a height of 114 feet over Bottom Hall Beck. The structure is noted for its significant height and engineering.
Local climate
Bottom Viaduct sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 980 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 78% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 71% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 46 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 87% of listed buildings. Of these, 26 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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