Railway Viaduct is a Grade II listed building in the Dorset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 20 May 1985. Viaduct.

Railway Viaduct

WRENN ID
buried-rafter-sunrise
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Dorset
Constituency
West Dorset MP: Edward Morello (LD)
Country
England
Date first listed
20 May 1985
Type
Viaduct
Address
Railway Viaduct, Stratton
OS grid reference
SY 639 945
Coordinates
50.74912, -2.51172
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Railway Viaduct over the road to Sydling was built around 1850 by Isambard Kingdom Brunel. It features rock-faced masonry and consists of three arches, with the central arch being larger than the two flanking arches. These arches have dropped keys and dressed stone voussoirs. There is a moulded plat band and cornice, topped by a flat parapet. The main piers on either side of the roadway are each pierced by four smaller arches with rounded bottoms. At each end, there are square corner piers with sloping revetments that are coped to retain the embankment.

Local climate

Railway Viaduct receives an average of 850 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 58% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 78% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 14 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 87% of listed buildings. Of these, 5 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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