Wearmouth Bridge is a Grade II listed building in the local planning authority area, England. First listed on 17 October 1994. Bridge. 4 related planning applications.
Wearmouth Bridge
- WRENN ID
- under-crypt-bistre
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Constituency
- Sunderland Central MP: Lewis Atkinson (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 17 October 1994
- Type
- Bridge
- Address
- Wearmouth Bridge, A1018, Sunderland, SR1 3AH
- OS grid reference
- NZ 396 574
- Coordinates
- 54.90983, -1.38295
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Wearmouth Bridge is a road bridge located in Sunderland, built in 1929 by the engineering firm Mott, Hay & Anderson, with GL Groves as the resident engineer and Sir W Arroll & Co. Ltd. from Glasgow as the contractor. The bridge features rock-faced sandstone abutments, a reinforced concrete road deck, and a steel superstructure with cast-iron footpath balustrades. It has a parabolic 3-pinned arch consisting of two ribs with a span of 375 feet, supported by spherical bearings at the hinges and K wind-bracing. This bridge was constructed on the site of an earlier iron bridge built in 1793, which was widened by Robert Stephenson in 1856. Some of the balustrade from the 1856 work has been incorporated into the new design, with additional panels made to match. The steps at the northeast include a cast-iron overthrow at the top and also incorporate elements from the 1856 structure.
Local climate
Wearmouth Bridge sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 720 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 83% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 95% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 27 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 71% of listed buildings. Of these, 15 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 4 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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