Railway underbridge MDL1/10, Thornhill Lane is a Grade II listed building in the Kirklees local planning authority area, England. First listed on 23 March 2018. Bridge.

Railway underbridge MDL1/10, Thornhill Lane

WRENN ID
sheer-flagstone-swallow
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Kirklees
Constituency
Dewsbury and Batley MP: Iqbal Mohamed (Ind)
Country
England
Date first listed
23 March 2018
Type
Bridge
OS grid reference
SE 237 211
Coordinates
53.68605, -1.64139
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Railway accommodation underbridge on Thornhill Lane was built between 1845 and 1847 by Thomas Grainger for the Leeds, Dewsbury & Manchester Railway. It is constructed from Pennine Lower Coal Measures Sandstone.

The bridge features a single carriageway arch, which is flanked by deeply curving, raked wing walls that support the embankments. The semi-circular arch is made with rusticated, V-jointed voussoirs that begin from impost bands. The remaining walling consists of coursed, squared, quarry-faced masonry. At the top, the bridge has an ashlar string course and a ramped blocking course without parapets. The wing walls are also ramped, ending with simple pilaster-strips and topped with plain, squared ashlar copings. The trackside fencing and the metal gate for the archway are modern additions.

Local climate

Railway underbridge MDL1/10, Thornhill Lane receives an average of 890 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 65% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 52% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 38 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 73% of listed buildings. Of these, 20 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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