Jamestown Viaduct, Inverkeithing is a Grade B listed building in the Fife local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 10 February 2004. Railway viaduct. 1 related planning application.
Jamestown Viaduct, Inverkeithing
- WRENN ID
- fallow-spandrel-foxglove
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Fife
- Constituency
- Cowdenbeath and Kirkcaldy MP: Melanie Ward (Lab)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 10 February 2004
- Type
- Railway viaduct
- OS grid reference
- NT 125 820
- Coordinates
- 56.02297, -3.40524
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
The Jamestown Viaduct in Inverkeithing is a railway viaduct constructed between 1883 and 1890, designed by Sir John Fowler and Sir Benjamin Baker, with engineering by Louis Nelville and contracting by Tancred, Arrol and Co and Joseph Philips. It features masonry abutments made of square snecked rubble, topped with a band course above elliptical arches that span 23 metres at both ends. The viaduct includes four spans of mild steel box girders, which are supported by raking vertical struts and topped with a light lattice steel parapet. Each steel span measures 30 metres in length and rests on four masonry piers made of squared and snecked bullfaced rubble, which are set at a 25-degree angle to the centre line. The entire structure is curved and has a gradient of 1 in 70.
Local climate
Jamestown Viaduct, Inverkeithing receives an average of 930 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 71% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 51% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 40 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 77% of listed buildings. Of these, 21 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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- Related listed building consents — 1 application
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