Railway Viaduct, Cardenden, Auchterderran is a Grade B listed building in the Fife local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 4 October 1996. Viaduct. 2 related planning applications.
Railway Viaduct, Cardenden, Auchterderran
- WRENN ID
- vast-gravel-tallow
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Fife
- Constituency
- Glenrothes and Mid Fife MP: Richard Baker (Lab)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 4 October 1996
- Type
- Viaduct
- OS grid reference
- NT 218 950
- Coordinates
- 56.14175, -3.25862
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
The Railway Viaduct in Cardenden, Auchterderran, was opened in 1849. It features four spans and has flanking quadrant walls. The structure is built from bull-faced ashlar, with dressed ashlar semicircular arch rings that have been patched with brick. The piers are designed with chamfered pedestal bases and cavetto cornices. The spandrels include iron ties, and the viaduct is topped with a flat-coped ashlar parapet.
Local climate
Railway Viaduct, Cardenden, Auchterderran receives an average of 890 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 66% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 59% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 52% 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 2 applications
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- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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