Aqueduct Over Railway Line, to the North of Rear of Number 50 Raymond Close Wyrley and Essington Canal is a Grade II listed building in the Walsall local planning authority area, England. First listed on 31 January 1996. Aqueduct.
Aqueduct Over Railway Line, to the North of Rear of Number 50 Raymond Close Wyrley and Essington Canal
- WRENN ID
- winding-threshold-plum
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Walsall
- Constituency
- Walsall and Bloxwich MP: Valerie Vaz (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 31 January 1996
- Type
- Aqueduct
- OS grid reference
- SK 009 005
- Coordinates
- 52.60239, -1.98806
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The aqueduct carries the Wyrley and Essington Canal over the Walsall-Bloxwich Railway and was built in 1856 by Lloyds Foster and Co., engineers. It is constructed from cast iron with blue brick abutments. The waterway is held in an iron trough that is supported by a central brick pier. An iron arch supports the towpath. The structure is inscribed with "Lloyds Foster and Co., Engineers, Wednesbury 1856". It features solid panel iron parapets with an interlaced arch pattern in relief and moulded iron parapet coping.
Local climate
Aqueduct Over Railway Line, to the North of Rear of Number 50 Raymond Close Wyrley and Essington 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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