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

Starling Bridge Over Beamish Burn

WRENN ID
crumbling-shingle-snow
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
County Durham
Constituency
North Durham MP: Luke Akehurst (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
21 January 1987
Type
Bridge
Address
Starling Bridge Over Beamish Burn, Stanley
OS grid reference
NZ 214 548
Coordinates
54.88807, -1.66767
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Starling Bridge over Beamish Burn is an early 19th-century bridge constructed of sandstone ashlar. It features a low segmental arch that is recessed beneath a band, which interrupts the road bed-level band of the projecting parapet. The parapet has a flat coping and terminates in higher square piers that have slightly-projecting flat coping.

Local climate

Starling Bridge Over Beamish Burn receives an average of 810 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 50% 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 40 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 77% of listed buildings. Of these, 24 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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