Oxley Viaduct is a Grade II listed building in the Wolverhampton local planning authority area, England. First listed on 31 March 1992. Viaduct.

Oxley Viaduct

WRENN ID
pale-newel-hemlock
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Wolverhampton
Constituency
Wolverhampton West MP: Warinder Juss (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
31 March 1992
Type
Viaduct
Address
Oxley Viaduct, Gorsebrook Road, City of Wolverhampton
OS grid reference
SJ 910 005
Coordinates
52.60269, -2.13324
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Oxley Viaduct is a railway viaduct built between 1847 and 1849 by Robert Stephenson and William Baker for the Shrewsbury and Birmingham Railway Company. It is constructed of blue brick with ashlar dressings and features twelve segmental arches, each with ashlar impost bands and a platt band above. The structure includes a stone-coped brick parapet. Notably, the third arch from the north is a skew arch that spans the Birmingham Canal Navigation, featuring rusticated ashlar voussoirs, while there is a blind round-headed arch to the south. This viaduct is regarded as an impressive and early example of its kind.

Local climate

Oxley Viaduct receives an average of 800 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 54% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 74% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 37 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 69% 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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