Five Arches, Railway Viaduct 200 Metres North of Water Lane is a Grade II listed building in the Watford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 7 January 1983. Railway bridge. 1 related planning application.
Five Arches, Railway Viaduct 200 Metres North of Water Lane
- WRENN ID
- carved-brass-falcon
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Watford
- Constituency
- Watford MP: Matt Turmaine (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 7 January 1983
- Type
- Railway bridge
- OS grid reference
- TQ 116 965
- Coordinates
- 51.65688, -0.38717
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Five Arches Railway Viaduct, built between 1836 and 1837, is a railway bridge that carries the former London to Birmingham Railway over the River Colne. Designed by R. Stephenson, the viaduct features five brick arches, each with a span of approximately 40 feet and standing 45 feet high at the center. The brick arches have projecting courses at the springing and parapet levels. At each end, the abutments include two shallow depressed arches. The structure was widened in 1857-58 and again in 1875, but the original bridge remains intact on the west side. The viaduct is documented in J. Bourne's drawings of the London and Birmingham Railway from 1839.
Local climate
Five Arches, Railway Viaduct 200 Metres North of Water Lane sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 710 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 86% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 85% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 31 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 61% of listed buildings. Of these, 15 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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