Rattery Viaduct is a Grade II listed building in the South Hams local planning authority area, England. First listed on 27 May 1986. Viaduct.
Rattery Viaduct
- WRENN ID
- ruined-merlon-ridge
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- South Hams
- Constituency
- South Devon MP: Caroline Voaden (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 27 May 1986
- Type
- Viaduct
- OS grid reference
- SX 732 606
- Coordinates
- 50.43187, -3.78631
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Rattery Viaduct is a railway viaduct built around 1848 by Isambard Kingdom Brunel and was widened around 1892-1893 when the broad gauge was replaced. The original single track viaduct consists of six bays made of coursed stone rubble, featuring round arches with granite arch rings, supported by rectangular piers that have round arch openings. A late 19th-century stone rubble parapet is present. The north side was widened in 1892-1893 using rock-faced granite with engineering brick arch rings. The South Devon Railway, which was authorized in 1844, opened this section from Totnes to Plymouth in 1848. The Great Western Railway took over in 1876, and the South Devon Company was dissolved in 1878. The original broad gauge was replaced in 1892-1893.
Local climate
Rattery Viaduct receives an average of 890 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 66% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 87% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 10 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 91% 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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