Former Railway Viaduct is a Grade II listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. Viaduct.
Former Railway Viaduct
- WRENN ID
- outer-facade-gold
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Somerset
- Constituency
- Wells and Mendip Hills MP: Tessa Munt (LD)
- Country
- England
- Type
- Viaduct
- Address
- Former Railway Viaduct, Waterloo Road, Shepton Mallet
- OS grid reference
- ST 620 443
- Coordinates
- 51.19671, -2.54472
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The former railway viaduct, now disused, was opened in 1874 for the Somerset and Dorset Joint Railway, serving the Shepton Mallet to Bath extension. It was doubled in width in 1894 and partially rebuilt in 1946. The viaduct features six arches of varying height that carry an elevated double-width trackway at right angles over Bath Road. The northern half is constructed with rock-faced masonry, while the southern half is brick-faced, with brick linings at all arch heads. Large piers at each end have pyramidal capstones, and there is 20th-century concrete shuttering for reinforcement on the central piers. This structure is significant as it frames an entrance into the town from the north.
Local climate
Former Railway Viaduct receives an average of 870 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 63% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 70% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 35 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 56% of listed buildings. Of these, 15 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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