Waverley Viaduct, West of the Former Electricity Works is a Grade II listed building in the Cumberland local planning authority area, England. First listed on 11 April 1994. Viaduct. 7 related planning applications.
Waverley Viaduct, West of the Former Electricity Works
- WRENN ID
- carved-cobalt-saffron
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cumberland
- Constituency
- Carlisle MP: Ms Julie Minns (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 11 April 1994
- Type
- Viaduct
- Address
- Waverley Viaduct, West of the Former Electricity Works, Willow Holme, CA2 7NY
- OS grid reference
- NY 383 565
- Coordinates
- 54.89942, -2.96326
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Waverley Viaduct, located west of the former Electricity Works in Carlisle, is a disused railway viaduct that was built in 1861 for the North British Railway Company. Constructed from quarry-faced red sandstone blocks, it features brick arches and has a double-track width with six spans that cross the River Eden on a slight curve. Each arch is segmental and supported by rounded piers, with quarry-faced voussoirs and brick soffits. The viaduct includes a moulded string course and a solid parapet with chamfered coping, although some stones are missing due to vandalism. Concerns were raised in the Carlisle Journal on 15 January 1861 about potential damage to a wooden bridge that was built to support a tramway during the construction of the viaduct, particularly from ice floes on the river. The railway line was completed in April 1862. Waverley Viaduct is partly situated in Kingmoor Civil Parish and is referred to as the Canal Viaduct in Peter Brook's 1990 publication.
Local climate
Waverley Viaduct, West of the Former Electricity Works sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,100 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 87% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 80% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 52 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 93% of listed buildings. Of these, 27 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 7 applications
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