Huddersfield Railway Viaduct is a Grade II listed building in the Kirklees local planning authority area, England. Viaduct. 14 related planning applications.
Huddersfield Railway Viaduct
- WRENN ID
- fallow-corridor-twilight
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Kirklees
- Constituency
- Huddersfield MP: Harpreet Uppal (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Type
- Viaduct
- Address
- Huddersfield Railway Viaduct, Viaduct Street, HD1 5DL
- OS grid reference
- SE 144 171
- Coordinates
- 53.65064, -1.78324
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Huddersfield Railway Viaduct, built between 1845 and 1847, is a significant structure that may have been constructed by contractor Thomas Nicholson, who also worked on the Stanedge Tunnel. The viaduct features rock-faced stone with smoother imposts and parapet coping, supported by tapering piers. It consists of eighteen round arches extending from the north to Bradford Road, with every third arch partially blocked by a smaller concentric arch. From Bradford Road to John William Street, there are twenty-six segmental arches, including a flat iron span at John William Street. The arches that carry principal roads are enhanced with rusticated ashlar voussoirs and buttresses at critical points. The viaduct measures 663 yards in length. During construction, errors in calculating gradients necessitated raising the viaduct to a higher level, which delayed the opening of the railway line until August 3, 1847.
Local climate
Huddersfield Railway 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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- Related listed building consents — 14 applications
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- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
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