Dent Head Viaduct is a Grade II listed building in the Yorkshire Dales National Park local planning authority area, England. First listed on 18 October 1999. Railway viaduct. 1 related planning application.
Dent Head Viaduct
- WRENN ID
- odd-cobalt-hazel
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Yorkshire Dales National Park
- Constituency
- Morecambe and Lunesdale MP: Lizzi Collinge (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 18 October 1999
- Type
- Railway viaduct
- Address
- Dent Head Viaduct, Westmorland and Furness
- OS grid reference
- SD 777 844
- Coordinates
- 54.2548, -2.34256
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Dent Head Viaduct is a railway viaduct that carries the Settle to Carlisle railway line over Fell End Gill. It was built between 1869 and 1875 for the Midland Railway Company, with Chief Engineer John Crossley and resident engineer J. Underwood overseeing the project. The structure is made from rock-faced sandstone in large blocks, mostly laid in courses, though some sections are snecked. The arches have brick soffits and the viaduct follows a slightly curved line along a north-south axis.
It features ten tall round-headed arches supported by battered rectangular piers, with the central pier being broader than the others and adorned with a broad tapered pilaster. The arches have short cavetto-moulded imposts at their springing, rusticated voussoirs (now reinforced with three tie-plates per arch), a moulded string course, and parapets with rounded coping. The viaduct is a striking feature at the head of Dentdale and provides an interesting contrast to the nearby Pack Saddle Bridge, located approximately 10 meters to the east.
Local climate
Dent Head Viaduct sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,270 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 94% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 90% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 69 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 99% of listed buildings. Of these, 45 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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- Related listed building consents — 1 application
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