Neidpath Viaduct is a Grade A listed building in the Scottish Borders local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 23 February 1971. Railway viaduct.
Neidpath Viaduct
- WRENN ID
- turning-railing-smoke
- Grade
- A
- Local Planning Authority
- Scottish Borders
- Constituency
- Dumfriesshire, Clydesdale and Tweeddale MP: David Mundell (Con)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 23 February 1971
- Type
- Railway viaduct
- OS grid reference
- NT 232 401
- Coordinates
- 55.64921, -3.22061
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Neidpath Viaduct, opened in 1864 for the Caledonian Railway, is a skewed eight-span former railway viaduct that crosses the River Tweed. It features rock-faced ashlar spandrels and voussoirs, with low stone parapets complemented by cast-iron intermediate parapets.
On the north elevation, the rock-faced spandrels and voussoirs lead to a skewed intrados. Rusticated buttress pilasters, decorated with cruciform arrow slits and smooth angle margins, extend from rounded cutwaters. A semicircular course leads to a stone and painted cast-iron parapet, with squared piers formed from buttresses linking to the cast-iron parapet. The eighth arch meets the embankment, with later steps leading to the track bed, which is now a footpath.
The south elevation mirrors the north, featuring rock-faced spandrels and voussoirs leading to a skewed intrados, along with rusticated buttress pilasters and a semicircular course leading to an ashlar and painted cast-iron parapet. The first and eighth arches meet embankments on either side of the River Tweed.
The east to west elevation includes sections of droved ashlar parapet wall at both ends, with flat copes and slightly projecting bases that have chamfered angles. Rusticated end returns feature polished angle margins. The elevation also displays sections of geometrically patterned, painted cast-iron parapet, joined by squared stone piers that rise at regular intervals from the buttresses, flanking the full length of the former track bed, now a footpath.
Local climate
Neidpath Viaduct sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,130 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 89% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 75% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 65 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 99% of listed buildings. Of these, 44 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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