Derriton Viaduct is a Grade II* listed building in the Torridge local planning authority area, England. First listed on 18 December 1989. Railway viaduct.
Derriton Viaduct
- WRENN ID
- lunar-jade-spring
- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- Torridge
- Constituency
- Torridge and Tavistock MP: Sir Geoffrey Cox (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 18 December 1989
- Type
- Railway viaduct
- Address
- Derriton Viaduct, Pyworthy
- OS grid reference
- SS 338 035
- Coordinates
- 50.80741, -4.35934
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Derriton Viaduct is a railway viaduct that carries the Holsworthy to Bude railway, built in 1898. It features shuttered concrete construction designed to resemble 'V' jointed masonry. The structure consists of nine semicircular arches, with granite projections from the arches' springers that were used to support timber scaffolding during construction. The four central piers are slightly splayed out and rest on chamfered plinths. Corbelled panels are located above the second, fourth, sixth, and eighth spandrels on the south front, as well as the first, third, fifth, and seventh panels on the north front. The eastern panels on both sides, closest to the town, display the date 1898. The parapet has chamfered coping stones. The viaduct spans over the mill leat.
The branch line it served opened on 10 September 1898 and closed on 3 October 1966. This structure is noted for being an early example of shuttered concrete construction for bridges, convincingly simulating masonry.
Local climate
Derriton Viaduct sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,070 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 86% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 91% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 13 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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