Charlton Viaduct is a Grade II* listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 20 May 1952. Viaduct.
Charlton Viaduct
- WRENN ID
- keen-arch-sorrel
- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- Somerset
- Constituency
- Wells and Mendip Hills MP: Tessa Munt (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 20 May 1952
- Type
- Viaduct
- Address
- Charlton Viaduct, Kilver Street, Shepton Mallet
- OS grid reference
- ST 627 435
- Coordinates
- 51.18993, -2.53372
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Charlton Viaduct is a disused railway viaduct that was opened in 1874 for the Somerset and Dorset Joint Railway, specifically for the Shepton Mallet to Bath extension. The viaduct was doubled in width in 1894 and features 27 segmental arches that support an elevated trackbed. It is constructed from quarry-faced masonry with brick linings at the arch heads. There are flat buttresses with slight projection located between arches 9 and 10, and 18 and 19, on the Worth end. A further viaduct over Bath Road also remains.
Local climate
Charlton 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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