Pontburn Bridge is a Grade II listed building in the County Durham local planning authority area, England. First listed on 21 January 1987. Bridge.

Pontburn Bridge

WRENN ID
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Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
County Durham
Constituency
Blaydon and Consett MP: Liz Twist (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
21 January 1987
Type
Bridge
Address
Pontburn Bridge, B6310
OS grid reference
NZ 146 562
Coordinates
54.90037, -1.7732
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Pontburn Bridge is an early 19th-century bridge constructed from coursed squared sandstone, featuring coursed rubble approach walls with ashlar dressings. The bridge has a segmental arch that is recessed under a drip band. The road bed slopes up from the center to the east, continuing around square pilasters that support round end piers of the parapet. The parapet is topped with chamfered ashlar coping, which is also present on the short approach walls on the north side of the road. Part of the bridge is located in the parish of Consett.

Local climate

Pontburn 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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