Markinch Railway Viaduct is a Grade B listed building in the Fife local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 24 November 1972. Viaduct.
Markinch Railway Viaduct
- WRENN ID
- twelfth-threshold-lichen
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Fife
- Constituency
- Glenrothes and Mid Fife MP: Richard Baker (Lab)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 24 November 1972
- Type
- Viaduct
- OS grid reference
- NO 298 010
- Coordinates
- 56.19679, -3.13229
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
The Markinch Railway Viaduct, designed by Thomas Grainger in 1847, is a significant structure featuring ten arches. It has eight main segmental arches and small single semicircular arches at each end on the banks. The viaduct is supported by dressed ashlar piers that rest on pedestal bases, topped with a cornice. The arch rings are also made of dressed ashlar, while the spandrels are constructed from coursed rubble, reinforced with iron tie rods. Below the flat coped ashlar parapet, there is a moulded string course.
Local climate
Markinch Railway Viaduct receives an average of 910 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 68% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 62% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 32 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 59% of listed buildings. Of these, 17 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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