Road Bridge Over Railway is a Grade II listed building in the County Durham local planning authority area, England. First listed on 14 January 1988. Road bridge.
Road Bridge Over Railway
- WRENN ID
- grey-shingle-honey
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- County Durham
- Constituency
- City of Durham MP: Mary Kelly Foy (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 14 January 1988
- Type
- Road bridge
- Address
- Road Bridge Over Railway, Mark's Lane, West Rainton and Leamside
- OS grid reference
- NZ 316 476
- Coordinates
- 54.82236, -1.50953
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This road bridge over the railway was built in 1848 for the Great North of England Railway. It is constructed from coursed squared sandstone in diminishing courses, featuring ashlar dressings and a parapet made of large blocks. The bridge has a skew plan and is supported by coped buttresses that hold up a wide segmental arch with projecting stepped voussoirs. A band at road-bed level continues around shallow end pilasters that rise to rectangular piers. The long parapet has a low-curved coping.
Local climate
Road Bridge Over Railway receives an average of 750 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 70% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 95% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 35 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 59% of listed buildings. Of these, 20 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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