Viaduct About 180 Metres North East of Woolston Farmhouse is a Grade II* listed building in the Cornwall local planning authority area, England. Railway viaduct.
Viaduct About 180 Metres North East of Woolston Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- grim-remnant-meadow
- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- Cornwall
- Constituency
- North Cornwall MP: Ben Maguire (LD)
- Country
- England
- Type
- Railway viaduct
- OS grid reference
- SS 228 021
- Coordinates
- 50.79138, -4.51511
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The viaduct, located about 180 metres northeast of Woolston Farmhouse, is a railway structure that once carried the Holsworthy to Bude railway, built in 1898. It is constructed from chamfered rusticated concrete blocks laid in Flemish bond and features five spans with parapets. The round arches rise from chamfered imposts atop rectangular section piers. The parapet includes a moulded cornice, and there is a string course below the parapet with plain coping. A datestone is set in the parapet, carved on a plaque on a corbelled out refuge. The railway line was built by the London and South Western Railway and opened in 1898, closing in 1966. While concrete blocks were used in housing from the 1860s, this viaduct may be the earliest example of their use in bridge construction. A similar viaduct exists on the same railway line at Holsworthy.
Local climate
Viaduct About 180 Metres North East of Woolston Farmhouse sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,090 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 87% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 93% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 11 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 89% of listed buildings. Of these, 4 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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