Brusselton Accommodation Bridge is a Grade II listed building in the County Durham local planning authority area, England. First listed on 3 November 1993. Bridge.

Brusselton Accommodation Bridge

WRENN ID
half-eave-fen
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
County Durham
Constituency
Bishop Auckland MP: Dr Sam Rushworth (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
3 November 1993
Type
Bridge
OS grid reference
NZ 211 255
Coordinates
54.6251, -1.67386
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Brusselton Accommodation Bridge is a railway bridge built between 1832 and 1833, designed by Thomas Storey and constructed by John Carter for the Stockton & Darlington Railway. It is made of ashlar sandstone and features a single span that carries the former railway line over a trackway.

The exterior of the bridge includes a round arch made of voussoirs that are shaped to align with the coursing of the ashlar stonework on the spandrel walls. The bridge parapet extends between square end piers, which also support the sloping wing walls that retain the sides of the embankment. Both the piers and parapets have a simple string course at the base, and the wing walls are topped with stone coping. There is a flight of stone steps adjacent to the north east wing wall that leads up the side of the embankment.

Additionally, the bridge is part of the Scheduled Monument known as 'Stockton & Darlington Railway: Brusselton Inclines'.

Local climate

Brusselton Accommodation 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 86% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 46 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 87% 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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