Old Dee Bridge is a Grade I listed building in the local planning authority area, England. First listed on 28 July 1955. A C14 Bridge. 1 related planning application.
Old Dee Bridge
- WRENN ID
- long-alcove-barley
- Grade
- I
- Local Planning Authority
- Constituency
- Chester South and Eddisbury MP: Aphra Brandreth (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 28 July 1955
- Type
- Bridge
- Address
- Old Dee Bridge, Handbridge, Cheshire West and Chester, CH4 7JE
- OS grid reference
- SJ 407 657
- Coordinates
- 53.1855, -2.88861
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Old Dee Bridge is a road bridge over the River Dee, dating from the late 14th century and altered in 1826. It is constructed of red sandstone and features seven arches arranged from north to south. The first two arches are segmental and located north of a diagonal weir, which serves a leat to the former Mills of Dee and a hydro-electric power station. Following the weir, there is a plain abutment leading to the first parabolic river arch, followed by a cutwater and a pointed arch with a moulded arris. This is succeeded by another cutwater, a narrower arch with a moulded arris, another cutwater, and a broad segmental arch with a moulded arris. The bottom stage of the bridge forms a rectangular projection upstream, which was used for a former gate-tower, and features a large cutwater. The final arch is a narrow segmental arch, likely replacing a former drawbridge. In 1826, the bridge was widened upstream to include a footway, which is partly corbelled. This bridge replaced earlier medieval bridges, probably made of timber, and is believed to be built on the site of a Roman bridge.
Local climate
Old Dee Bridge receives an average of 890 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 66% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 78% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 31 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 62% of listed buildings. Of these, 14 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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