It spans the River Sherbourne and its flat valley as it passes through Spon End, a suburb just to the west of Coventry city centre.

The viaduct is a quarter of a mile (0.4 kilometres) long and consists of 28 arches, each with a 48 feet (15 metres) span.

It is on Coventry City Council's register of locally listed buildings and forms part of the Spon End conservation area, which was declared in 2003.

[4] George Demidowicz, in an architectural history of Coventry, compared the viaduct to the Coat of Arms Bridge to the south on the line to Leamington Spa.

He described the viaduct as "on a very different scale" and dominating Spon End, which is otherwise characterised by some of Coventry's few remaining medieval buildings.