Railway Bridge No 618 is a Grade II listed building in the Maidstone local planning authority area, England. First listed on 23 January 1987. Railway bridge.
Railway Bridge No 618
- WRENN ID
- lost-passage-stoat
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Maidstone
- Constituency
- Faversham and Mid Kent MP: Helen Whately (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 23 January 1987
- Type
- Railway bridge
- Address
- Railway Bridge No 618, Ashford Road, Boxley
- OS grid reference
- TQ 772 555
- Coordinates
- 51.27177, 0.53989
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Railway Bridge No 618 is a railway viaduct and screen wall built around 1880 as part of the Maidstone and Ashford Railway. The screen wall was specifically constructed to prevent sparks and soot from the railway engines from drifting onto the handmade paper drying in the nearby louvred drying lofts at Turkey Mill. The bridge is made of red brick in English bond and features a series of round-headed arches. Above these arches, the screen wall has large recessed panels with pierced circular holes on the north side, creating a decorative effect, while the south side has plain walls where it abutted Turkey Mill. This structure holds social historical significance as it was designed to address the concerns of local landowners, including the Earl of Romney and James Whatman, MP for Maidstone and owner of Turkey Mill, as noted in the Maidstone and Ashford Railway Act of 1880.
Local climate
Railway Bridge No 618 sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 740 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 76% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 76% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 28 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 69% 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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