Walsall Road Aqueduct at Sp 016 947 Tame Valley Canal is a Grade II listed building in the Sandwell local planning authority area, England. First listed on 14 October 1991. Aqueduct.
Walsall Road Aqueduct at Sp 016 947 Tame Valley Canal
- WRENN ID
- lone-chamber-nightshade
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Sandwell
- Constituency
- West Bromwich MP: Sarah Coombes (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 14 October 1991
- Type
- Aqueduct
- OS grid reference
- SP 016 947
- Coordinates
- 52.55089, -1.97757
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Walsall Road Aqueduct, built between 1841 and 1844, carries the Tame Valley Canal over a road. It features a prefabricated cast iron trough with bolted side panels supported by iron girders. On both sides, there are flying towpaths with solid iron panel parapets also mounted on iron girders. The structure is anchored by brick abutments that have stone bed mouldings and copings, along with brick wing walls topped with half-round brick coping.
Local climate
Walsall Road Aqueduct at Sp 016 947 Tame Valley Canal receives an average of 800 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 56% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 75% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 38 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 71% 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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