Newbattle Viaduct is a Grade B listed building in the Midlothian local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 22 January 1971. Railway viaduct.
Newbattle Viaduct
- WRENN ID
- kindled-threshold-martin
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Midlothian
- Constituency
- Midlothian MP: Kirsty McNeill (Lab)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 22 January 1971
- Type
- Railway viaduct
- OS grid reference
- NT 326 648
- Coordinates
- 55.87204, -3.07718
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Newbattle Viaduct, designed by John Miller in 1847, features 23 semi-circular arches. It is constructed from coursed, rock-faced sandstone with brick voussoirs and soffits. The structure includes ashlar imposts, hoodmoulds over the arches, and a band course. The parapet is made of tooled, coursed sandstone with ashlar coping and metal railings. There are reinforcing iron strappings along the soffits and piers, as well as a projecting stone base to the piers. The piers also have blind recessed arches filled with coursed, tooled sandstone. At the southeast end, there is a skewed arch over the road, featuring stone voussoirs and flanking buttresses made of rock-faced sandstone. Towards the northwest, a tall arch with stepped buttresses spans the River South Esk.
Local climate
Newbattle Viaduct receives an average of 960 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 74% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 52% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 39 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 74% of listed buildings. Of these, 23 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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