The Grove Bridge Over Spurlswood Beck is a Grade II listed building in the County Durham local planning authority area, England. First listed on 26 November 1987. Bridge.
The Grove Bridge Over Spurlswood Beck
- WRENN ID
- third-plinth-starling
- 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
- Address
- The Grove Bridge Over Spurlswood Beck, Redford Lane, South Bedburn
- OS grid reference
- NZ 066 298
- Coordinates
- 54.66371, -1.89836
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Grove bridge over Spurlswood Beck is a bridge dated 1843, built for Robert Surtees, with the date inscribed in Latin on panels on the parapet. It is constructed from tooled coursed squared sandstone, including some red stone, with ashlar dressings. The bridge features a segmental arch with recessed voussoirs beneath a roll-moulded dripmould. Well-cut panels are located above the arches and on the inner face of the parapet. The panels on the west side bear the inscription "EXTRUXIT ROBERTUS SURTEES AD DCCC XLIII" in Roman capitals, while those on the east side display a Surtees emblem and motto, which features three feathers, though the motto is eroded. The parapets extend outward towards the road and have overhanging rounded coping. Shallow pilasters flank the arch and rise to support the projecting parapet coping.
Local climate
The Grove Bridge Over Spurlswood Beck receives an average of 920 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 70% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 71% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 53 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 93% of listed buildings. Of these, 33 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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