Railway Viaduct, Underwood Road, Paisley is a Grade B listed building in the Renfrewshire local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 27 March 1985. Railway viaduct.

Railway Viaduct, Underwood Road, Paisley

WRENN ID
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Grade
B
Local Planning Authority
Renfrewshire
Constituency
Paisley and Renfrewshire South MP: Johanna Baxter (Lab)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
27 March 1985
Type
Railway viaduct
OS grid reference
NS 478 643
Coordinates
55.84842, -4.43141
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

The Railway Viaduct on Underwood Road in Paisley was built in 1840. It features a sharply skewed design with a large central semi-elliptical arch flanked by two smaller arches. The structure is made of polished channelled ashlar at the corners, with rough-faced ashlar used between the corners and beneath the arches. There is an impost moulding above the arches, and the voussoirs and outer soffits are channelled. The inner soffits are made of brick. Polished ashlar is present over the voussoirs and on the raised pilaster strips that flank the arches. A banding course runs above, and the parapet is advanced over the pilaster strips.

Local climate

Railway Viaduct, Underwood Road, Paisley sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,280 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 94% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 86% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 50 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 91% of listed buildings. Of these, 27 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.2°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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