Blachford Viaduct Including Adjacent Piers of Earlier Viaduct is a Grade II listed building in the Dartmoor National Park local planning authority area, England. First listed on 2 February 1984. Viaduct.

Blachford Viaduct Including Adjacent Piers of Earlier Viaduct

WRENN ID
ragged-plinth-frost
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Dartmoor National Park
Constituency
South West Devon MP: Rebecca Smith (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
2 February 1984
Type
Viaduct
Address
Blachford Viaduct Including Adjacent Piers of Earlier Viaduct, Cornwood, South Hams
OS grid reference
SX 608 582
Coordinates
50.40788, -3.96023
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Blachford Viaduct is a railway viaduct for the South Devon Railway, which includes the adjacent piers of an earlier viaduct. The original piers were constructed in 1848 by Isambard Kingdom Brunel, while the current viaduct was built in 1892 by Sir James Inglis.

The Inglis viaduct is made of rock-faced granite and blue engineering bricks. It features ten round arches supported by granite piers, with granite spandrels and a brick parapet. The original timber deck of Brunel's viaduct has been removed, but the granite piers from that structure still stand to the north.

Local climate

Blachford Viaduct Including Adjacent Piers of Earlier Viaduct receives an average of 940 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 72% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 89% 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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