Wharfedale Viaduct

WHARFEDALE VIADUCT

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1150036
Date first listed:
22-Feb-1985
List Entry Name:
Wharfedale Viaduct
Statutory Address:
WHARFEDALE VIADUCT
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1150036
Date first listed:
22-Feb-1985
List Entry Name:
Wharfedale Viaduct
Statutory Address 1:
WHARFEDALE VIADUCT

The scope of legal protection for listed buildings

This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.

For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

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Corrections and minor amendments

The scope of legal protection for listed buildings

This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.

For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:
WHARFEDALE VIADUCT

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

District:
North Yorkshire (Unitary Authority)
Parish:
Castley
National Grid Reference:
SE 26346 45587

Details

SE 24 NE
5/1

CASTLEY
Wharfedale Viaduct

II

Viaduct. Completed 1849. Engineer, Thomas Grainger.
21 round arches, with roll moulding at springer level and voussoirs.
Parapet has roll moulding and stepped end-blocks at the point where it meets
the embankment. This viaduct over the river Wharfe was the work of the
Leeds and Thirsk Railway Company, which became the Leeds Northern Railway in
1851. B Jennings (ed), A History of Harrogate and Knaresborough,
Huddersfield, 1970.

Listing NGR: SE2634645587

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Legacy System number:
330469
Legacy System:
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Sources

Books and journals
Jennings, B, A History of Harrogate and Knaresborough, (1970)

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This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.

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© Crown copyright [and database rights] 2026. OS AC0000815036. All rights reserved. Ordnance Survey Licence number 100024900.© British Crown and SeaZone Solutions Limited 2026. All rights reserved. Licence number 102006.006.

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