Railway Bridge of the Liskeard and Caradon Railway, at Sx 264 696 is a Grade II listed building in the Cornwall local planning authority area, England. First listed on 5 November 1987. Bridge.
Railway Bridge of the Liskeard and Caradon Railway, at Sx 264 696
- WRENN ID
- old-parapet-thunder
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cornwall
- Constituency
- South East Cornwall MP: Anna Gelderd (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 5 November 1987
- Type
- Bridge
- Address
- Railway Bridge of the Liskeard and Caradon Railway, at Sx 264 696, St. Cleer
- OS grid reference
- SX 264 696
- Coordinates
- 50.50108, -4.4488
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The railway bridge of the Liskeard and Caradon Railway was built between 1843 and 1846. It is constructed from granite rubble with granite dressings. The bridge features a tall round arch made of rusticated voussoirs and has parapet walls with coping. The flanking walls are slightly splayed and ramped down on both sides of the arch, both at the front and the rear. The Act for the Liskeard and Caradon Railway was passed in 1843 to transport coal and ore from the South Caradon Mine, which began copper production in 1837. The railway was built to standard gauge, measuring eight and a quarter miles long, with a ruling gradient of 1 in 60, designed for gravity operation in the downward direction. Initially, the line was operated by horses, but by 1862, due to increased output and demand, the Liskeard and Caradon Railway Company decided to re-lay the line and introduce locomotive haulage. By this time, the railway extended directly to the copper shipping wharves at Looe.
Local climate
Railway Bridge of the Liskeard and Caradon Railway, at Sx 264 696 sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,010 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 81% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 85% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 15 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 85% of listed buildings. Of these, 6 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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