Liddel Viaduct is a Grade A listed building in the Dumfries and Galloway local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 3 August 1971. Viaduct.
Liddel Viaduct
- WRENN ID
- ghost-sill-quill
- Grade
- A
- Local Planning Authority
- Dumfries and Galloway
- Constituency
- Dumfriesshire, Clydesdale and Tweeddale MP: David Mundell (Con)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 3 August 1971
- Type
- Viaduct
- OS grid reference
- NY 410 756
- Coordinates
- 55.07166, -2.92419
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Liddel Viaduct is a railway viaduct built in 1864, which is now disused. It features nine unusually sharply-skewed depressed arches that carry a single track over Liddel Water. The structure is made of bull-nosed red ashlar and includes narrow cutwaters, bands at the imposts, and channelled voussoirs, with the channelling continuing diagonally along the soffits. The brick parapets have concrete coping slabs and iron handrails, which are not original to the structure.
Local climate
Liddel Viaduct sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,090 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 79% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 51 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 92% of listed buildings. Of these, 28 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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