Manchester and Leeds Railway Whitely Arches Railway Viaduct Over the Halifax Road is a Grade II listed building in the Calderdale local planning authority area, England. First listed on 21 June 1984. Viaduct.
Manchester and Leeds Railway Whitely Arches Railway Viaduct Over the Halifax Road
- WRENN ID
- late-pavement-gorse
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Calderdale
- Constituency
- Calder Valley MP: Josh Fenton-Glynn (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 21 June 1984
- Type
- Viaduct
- Address
- Manchester and Leeds Railway Whitely Arches Railway Viaduct Over the Halifax Road, Hebden Royd
- OS grid reference
- SD 981 269
- Coordinates
- 53.73934, -2.03025
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Whitely Arches Railway Viaduct, built in 1840 by George Stephenson, is a significant structure that spans the Halifax Road. It features pitch-faced stone retaining walls and three segmental skewed arches, with the heads of the voussoirs aligned to the courses. A roll moulded band in ashlar runs along the structure, and there is a rough dressed parapet. At either end of the viaduct, there are wide square buttressed ends topped with large cappings.
Local climate
Manchester and Leeds Railway Whitely Arches Railway Viaduct Over the Halifax Road sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,070 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 86% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 79% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 53 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 94% of listed buildings. Of these, 31 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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