Shropshire Union Canal Aqueduct Over Watling Street is a Grade II listed building in the South Staffordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 4 July 1985. Aqueduct.
Shropshire Union Canal Aqueduct Over Watling Street
- WRENN ID
- scattered-tracery-summer
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- South Staffordshire
- Constituency
- Stone, Great Wyrley and Penkridge MP: Sir Gavin Williamson (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 4 July 1985
- Type
- Aqueduct
- Address
- Shropshire Union Canal Aqueduct Over Watling Street, A 5, Lapley, Stretton and Wheaton Aston
- OS grid reference
- SJ 872 107
- Coordinates
- 52.69419, -2.18958
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Shropshire Union Canal Aqueduct over Watling Street, built in 1832, is an important structure designed by engineer Thomas Telford. It features a cast iron box girder span supported by blue brick abutments with stone dressings. Below the girders is a single segmental arch, which leads to concave abutments adorned with a roll moulded stone string at the springing level. Engaged stone columns flank the arch, rising above a corbelled stone coping along the towpath, topped with ornamental cast iron parapet railings and slightly domed cappings. A cast inscription on the central panel of the beam reads "Birmingham and Liverpool Canal Thos. Telford F.R.S.I, and E. Engineer 1832." In the 20th century, a blue brick plinth was added to facilitate the lowering of the carriageway.
Local climate
Shropshire Union Canal Aqueduct Over Watling Street receives an average of 820 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 50% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 78% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 40 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 78% 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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