Red Bull Aqueduct is a Grade II listed building in the Newcastle-under-Lyme local planning authority area, England. First listed on 26 March 1987. Canal aqueduct.
Red Bull Aqueduct
- WRENN ID
- leaning-groin-summer
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Newcastle-under-Lyme
- Constituency
- Stoke-on-Trent North MP: David Williams (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 26 March 1987
- Type
- Canal aqueduct
- Address
- Red Bull Aqueduct, Liverpool Road East, Kidsgrove
- OS grid reference
- SJ 830 550
- Coordinates
- 53.09259, -2.25389
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Red Bull Aqueduct is a canal aqueduct that carries the Macclesfield Canal branch of the Trent and Mersey Canal over Liverpool Road in Church Lawton. It was built in 1828 and is constructed from red and blue English bond brick with ashlar dressings.
The west side features a central archway with a cambered arch, flanked by ashlar quoins and chamfered ashlar voussoirs. The tunnel roof is lined with similarly chamfered stone. Above the archway is a rectangular datestone with a raised border, inscribed "RED BULL/AQUEDUCT/MDCCCXXVIII". The retaining walls on either side are battered and curve slightly forward, with pilaster buttresses at each end. A large roll-moulding separates the main body of the bridge from the ashlar parapet. Beyond the pilaster buttresses, the retaining walls decrease in height and curve around to run parallel to the road, ending in low square piers topped with pyramidal ashlar caps. The east side of the aqueduct is similar in design. This branch of the Macclesfield Canal was owned by the Trent and Mersey Canal Company and constructed by their engineers.
Local climate
Red Bull Aqueduct receives an average of 900 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 67% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 54% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 43 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 84% 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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