Coventry Canal Tame Aqueduct with Attached Pill Box is a Grade II listed building in the Tamworth local planning authority area, England. First listed on 28 February 1992. Aqueduct. 2 related planning applications.
Coventry Canal Tame Aqueduct with Attached Pill Box
- WRENN ID
- gentle-pier-wax
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Tamworth
- Constituency
- Tamworth MP: Sarah Edwards (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 28 February 1992
- Type
- Aqueduct
- OS grid reference
- SK 209 022
- Coordinates
- 52.61741, -1.69142
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Tame Aqueduct is an aqueduct that spans the River Tame, built between 1785 and 1790, with an attached pillbox from 1940. The engineer for the aqueduct was Thomas Sheasby, with advice from T. Dadford and R. Whitworth. The structure is made of brick with ashlar dressings and has been plastered on the north side. It features three segmental arches supported by ashlar triangular cutwaters, with the ends of the arches swept forward. There are iron railings on the north side and a brick parapet with rounded brick coping and ashlar-coped piers on the south side. At the west end of the south side, there is a rectangular pillbox from 1940, which has one opening on the east end and two openings on the north side.
Local climate
Coventry Canal Tame Aqueduct with Attached Pill Box receives an average of 780 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 62% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 73% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 38 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 72% of listed buildings. Of these, 18 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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