London Road Railway Viaduct is a Grade II* listed building in the Brighton and Hove local planning authority area, England. First listed on 19 April 1974. Railway bridge. 2 related planning applications.
London Road Railway Viaduct
- WRENN ID
- blind-soffit-holly
- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- Brighton and Hove
- Constituency
- Brighton Pavilion MP: Siân Berry (Green)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 19 April 1974
- Type
- Railway bridge
- Address
- London Road Railway Viaduct, Preston Road, the City of Brighton and Hove, BN1 6SA
- OS grid reference
- TQ 308 055
- Coordinates
- 50.83475, -0.14257
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The London Road Railway Viaduct is a railway bridge built between 1845 and 1846 by John Rastrick. It is constructed from red and brown brick in English bond, with yellow brick and stone dressings, and some sections rebuilt in blue brick. The viaduct features a fifty-foot wide elliptical arch over Preston Road, along with 26 round arches that are thirty feet wide. It curves for four hundred yards from London Road station in the east to New England Road in the south-west.
All piers of the viaduct are battered and have oblong openings that are round-arched at both the top and bottom. Each pier is topped with an entablature that includes a stone architrave, cornice, and a brick frieze. The archivolt is made of yellow brick, and there is a dentil cornice of stone and brick above, finished with a balustrade of brick panels and balusters in between. The piers next to Preston Road are broader than the others and feature a pilaster-like projection with a recessed panel on the south side. One pier, the second west of Preston Road, was destroyed by bombing in 1943 but has since been repaired.
This viaduct is the largest engineering work on the London and Brighton railway branch to Lewes and is a significant structure in south-eastern England.
Local climate
London Road Railway Viaduct receives an average of 840 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 56% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 89% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 15 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 85% of listed buildings. Of these, 7 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 4 transactions since 2015
- Related listed building consents — 2 applications
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