Prebends Bridge is a Grade I listed building in the County Durham local planning authority area, England. First listed on 6 May 1952. A Neoclassical Bridge.
Prebends Bridge
- WRENN ID
- calm-barrel-hazel
- Grade
- I
- Local Planning Authority
- County Durham
- Constituency
- City of Durham MP: Mary Kelly Foy (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 6 May 1952
- Type
- Bridge
- Period
- Neoclassical
- Address
- Prebends Bridge, River Wear, City of Durham
- OS grid reference
- NZ 271 418
- Coordinates
- 54.77091, -1.5796
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Prebends Bridge is a Grade I listed structure built between 1772 and 1778 by George Nicholson for the Dean and Chapter of Durham. It was restored in 1955-1956. The bridge is constructed from coursed squared sandstone and ashlar, featuring three round arches with rusticated voussoirs and rusticated cutwaters. It has large three-sided buttresses that create refuges in the parapet. Pilasters frame sections of the parapet above the arches, with the outer ones featuring balustrades. The abutments are canted to match the width of the bridge. The parapets have low-chamfered coping that ends in ogee-domed coping, which is part of a continuous band with the parapet coping. The outer faces of the bridge include bands at road bed level and stone drains that protrude beneath them. Prebends Bridge is also a scheduled ancient monument.
Local climate
Prebends Bridge receives an average of 790 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 58% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 96% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 41 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 79% 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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