Winston Bridge is a Grade II* listed building in the County Durham local planning authority area, England. Bridge.
Winston Bridge
- WRENN ID
- crooked-render-dale
- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- County Durham
- Constituency
- Bishop Auckland MP: Dr Sam Rushworth (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Type
- Bridge
- Address
- Winston Bridge, B6274, Barforth
- OS grid reference
- NZ 142 162
- Coordinates
- 54.54149, -1.78116
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Winston Bridge is a road bridge that crosses the River Tees, built between 1762 and 1763 by Sir Thomas Robinson. The bridge is constructed from dressed sandstone and features a single semicircular arch that spans 34 meters. The arch is defined by an archivolt made of finely-jointed voussoirs and is now stabilized by eight iron tie rods and plates. Both the north and south faces of the bridge have massive rectangular-plan piers with buttressed raking sections on the east and west sides. The parapet has slightly-projecting coping supported by square brackets and is cambered over the arch, with the coping breaking forward over the piers to create pedestrian refuges. The east and west ends of the bridge are finished with low square-plan piers topped with pyramidal caps, and the west end of the bridge is slightly canted on plan. Winston Bridge spans the parishes of Winston and Barforth.
Local climate
Winston Bridge receives an average of 900 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 67% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 63% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 50 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 92% of listed buildings. Of these, 31 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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