Handley Cross Bridge is a Grade II listed building in the County Durham local planning authority area, England. First listed on 6 June 1951. Bridge. 1 related planning application.

Handley Cross Bridge

WRENN ID
worn-chapel-woodpecker
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
County Durham
Constituency
Blaydon and Consett MP: Liz Twist (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
6 June 1951
Type
Bridge
Address
Handley Cross Bridge, B6310, NE39 1NJ
OS grid reference
NZ 145 558
Coordinates
54.89714, -1.77444
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Handley Cross Bridge is a Grade II listed structure over Hamsterley Burn, possibly built in 1825 by John Dobson for R.S. Surtees. The bridge is named after Surtees' successful novel from 1843. It carries a drive to a house over a deep cut. The bridge is constructed of coursed squared sandstone with ashlar dressings and is designed in a Gothic style. It features a high, two-centred arch over the burn, flanked by two smaller arches of similar design. The impost band of the larger arch serves as sill bands on each side. Below the parapet, there is a road-bed-level band, and the parapet itself has a thin flat coping that terminates in low square piers. These piers have pulvinated corner blocks beneath wide bands and roughly-cut high square copings.

Local climate

Handley Cross Bridge receives an average of 850 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 58% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 99% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 45 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 86% of listed buildings. Of these, 27 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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