Moorgates Cattle Arch is a Grade II listed building in the North York Moors National Park local planning authority area, England. First listed on 7 July 1989. Railway bridge.
Moorgates Cattle Arch
- WRENN ID
- hollow-granite-equinox
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- North York Moors National Park
- Constituency
- Scarborough and Whitby MP: Alison Hume (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 7 July 1989
- Type
- Railway bridge
- Address
- Moorgates Cattle Arch, Goathland, North Yorkshire
- OS grid reference
- SE 845 993
- Coordinates
- 54.38296, -0.70037
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Moorgates Cattle Arch is a Grade II listed structure located in Goathland, originally built as a railway bridge around 1845 for the York and North Midland Railway Company. The arch is constructed from rusticated sandstone with tooled dressings and features a single semicircular arch made of shaped voussoirs set on chamfered imposts, flanked by pilaster buttresses. A moulded cornice runs beneath a plain parapet that has sloped coping. The buttresses extend through the cornice, forming terminal piers for the parapet. Raked quadrant abutments with flat coping lead to square piers that serve as retaining walls on either side, each topped with shallow pyramidal caps. This bridge was designed to allow the movement of cattle without the need to drive them across the railway line, which was originally part of the Whitby to Pickering railway line, later replaced in 1865 by the improved Deviation Line.
Local climate
Moorgates Cattle Arch receives an average of 860 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 62% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 69% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 17 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 83% of listed buildings. Of these, 11 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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