North Water Viaduct is a Grade B listed building in the Aberdeenshire local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 11 June 1971. Railway bridge. 1 related planning application.

North Water Viaduct

WRENN ID
noble-chalk-solstice
Grade
B
Local Planning Authority
Aberdeenshire
Constituency
West Aberdeenshire and Kincardine MP: Andrew Bowie (Con)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
11 June 1971
Type
Railway bridge
Address
North Water Viaduct, DD10 0AA
OS grid reference
NO 725 622
Coordinates
56.75102, -2.45125
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

The North Water Viaduct is a single track multi-arch railway bridge built between 1861 and 1865, with engineering by Blyth and Blyth appointed in 1863. It is now pedestrianised and features a skew design over a river, with a curving northern approach. The bridge's arches extend over a road and rise to higher ground. It is constructed of bull-faced masonry with ashlar dressings and intrados, and all arches are segmental. The structure includes tall piers with bull-nosed cutwaters and has saddle-back coping on a low parapet, which is complemented by modern railings.

Local climate

North Water Viaduct receives an average of 940 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 72% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 72% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 25 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 73% of listed buildings. Of these, 14 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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