Serpentine Bridge is a Grade II listed building in the County Durham local planning authority area, England. First listed on 22 August 1977. Bridge.
Serpentine Bridge
- WRENN ID
- burning-keep-meadow
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- County Durham
- Constituency
- Newton Aycliffe and Spennymoor MP: Alan Strickland (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 22 August 1977
- Type
- Bridge
- Address
- Serpentine Bridge, A177, Sedgefield
- OS grid reference
- NZ 344 288
- Coordinates
- 54.65359, -1.4677
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Serpentine Bridge is a bridge built around 1754, designed by James Paine for John Bourdon of Herdwick Hall, and constructed by John Bell of Durham. It is made of ashlar stone and features a single wide elliptical arch that is slightly raised in the center. The arch has voussoirs and a drip mould, and it once supported a parapet adorned with pierced quatrefoils and rounded coping. The bridge was created as part of the new landscape garden layout designed for John Bourdon.
Local climate
Serpentine Bridge receives an average of 760 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 68% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 93% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 38 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 73% of listed buildings. Of these, 22 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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