Bushey Arches Railway Viaduct is a Grade II listed building in the Watford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 7 January 1983. Railway viaduct. 1 related planning application.
Bushey Arches Railway Viaduct
- WRENN ID
- turning-merlon-birch
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Watford
- Constituency
- Watford MP: Matt Turmaine (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 7 January 1983
- Type
- Railway viaduct
- Address
- Bushey Arches Railway Viaduct, High Street, WD19 4FB
- OS grid reference
- TQ 118 954
- Coordinates
- 51.64691, -0.38438
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Bushey Arches Railway Viaduct is a railway bridge built between 1834 and 1837, designed by engineer Robert Stephenson. It carries the London-Birmingham Railway over the London-Watford road. The viaduct features five arches, each with a span of approximately 30 feet and a height of 25 feet. The structure is made of brick and stone, with rusticated stone voussoirs and a stone course below the parapet. The parapet has been rebuilt, and a 20th-century bridge runs parallel to and obscures the east side of the viaduct.
Local climate
Bushey Arches Railway Viaduct sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 700 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 93% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 91% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 30 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 65% of listed buildings. Of these, 13 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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