Stanley Ferry Aqueduct is a Grade I listed building in the Wakefield local planning authority area, England. First listed on 9 October 1987. A Classical Aqueduct.
Stanley Ferry Aqueduct
- WRENN ID
- brooding-wall-meadow
- Grade
- I
- Local Planning Authority
- Wakefield
- Constituency
- Pontefract, Castleford and Knottingley MP: Yvette Cooper (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 9 October 1987
- Type
- Aqueduct
- Period
- Classical
- Address
- Stanley Ferry Aqueduct, Birkwood Road, Normanton and Altofts
- OS grid reference
- SE 355 230
- Coordinates
- 53.70249, -1.46253
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Stanley Ferry Aqueduct is a Grade I listed structure that carries the Calder Cut of the Aire and Calder Navigation over the River Calder. It was built between 1837 and 1839 and designed in 1834 by George Leather junior of George Leather and Son, based in Leeds. The aqueduct features a cast iron construction with stone abutments and is designed in an arched suspension style. It includes two iron girder sections with a span of 155 feet, a horizontal tie at the apex, and steel suspension rods supporting the trough.
The trough itself is 160 feet long and 24 feet wide, adorned on each outer side with a continuous colonnade of fluted Doric colonnettes and an entablature that features triglyphs with guttae and mutules. The lower ends of the arched supporting girders pass through at each end without disrupting the colonnade. Each stone abutment is concealed by a pedimented portico that matches the overall style of the aqueduct. Although the trough has been modified by the removal of the towpaths to widen the passage, the iron stick railings have been replaced in replica. This aqueduct is believed to be the first iron suspension aqueduct in the world.
Local climate
Stanley Ferry Aqueduct receives an average of 840 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 56% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 64% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 37 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 68% of listed buildings. Of these, 19 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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