Flockton Wagonway Viaduct is a Grade II* listed building in the Kirklees local planning authority area, England. First listed on 21 November 2024. Viaduct.
Flockton Wagonway Viaduct
- WRENN ID
- vast-corridor-clover
- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- Kirklees
- Constituency
- Dewsbury and Batley MP: Iqbal Mohamed (Ind)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 21 November 2024
- Type
- Viaduct
- OS grid reference
- SE 253 152
- Coordinates
- 53.63318, -1.61825
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Flockton Wagonway Viaduct is a utilitarian wagonway viaduct, likely built in the 1790s for the Flockton Wagonway. It is constructed from squared stone laid in courses and measures approximately 55 meters in length. The viaduct features twenty round arches, each with a span of about 2 meters, supporting a track bed that rises to about 3 meters above the surrounding ground. The structure is approximately 3 meters wide between its low parapets and is believed to have been single tracked.
The wagonway approaches the viaduct via embankments on both the north and south sides. The viaduct itself has a very slight curve in its plan form, with the line following a gentle gradient that descends to the north. The listing includes the approach embankments at either end of the viaduct.
The arches consist of single arch rings made of roughly squared stone. The low parapets are slightly corbelled out from the face of the viaduct and, where they remain, feature thin coping stones.
Local climate
Flockton Wagonway Viaduct receives an average of 910 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 68% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 52% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 41 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 79% of listed buildings. Of these, 23 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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