Blackton Bridge Over Eggleston Burn is a Grade II listed building in the County Durham local planning authority area, England. First listed on 26 November 1987. Bridge.

Blackton Bridge Over Eggleston Burn

WRENN ID
bitter-zinc-dawn
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
County Durham
Constituency
Bishop Auckland MP: Dr Sam Rushworth (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
26 November 1987
Type
Bridge
OS grid reference
NY 988 249
Coordinates
54.61962, -2.01856
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Blackton Bridge over Eggleston Burn is a bridge, likely built around 1860, designed for transporting lead ore to a smelt mill for the London Lead Company. It is constructed from large blocks of coursed sandstone with ashlar dressings and features coursed rubble parapets with block coping. The bridge has four high segmental arches with voussoirs, although the easternmost arch is partly blocked, and these arches rest on tapered piers. The parapet copings have a roughly-dressed top, and the blocks were originally held together by iron clamps, which are now missing. There are also 20th-century iron reinforcements tied to the corners of the piers.

Local climate

Blackton Bridge Over Eggleston Burn sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 990 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 79% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 52% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 56 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 96% of listed buildings. Of these, 36 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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