Whorlton Suspension Bridge, Over the River Tees is a Grade II* listed building in the County Durham local planning authority area, England. First listed on 19 January 1952. Bridge.
Whorlton Suspension Bridge, Over the River Tees
- WRENN ID
- stark-bronze-larch
- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- County Durham
- Constituency
- Bishop Auckland MP: Dr Sam Rushworth (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 19 January 1952
- Type
- Bridge
- Address
- Whorlton Suspension Bridge, Over the River Tees, Wycliffe with Thorpe
- OS grid reference
- NZ 106 145
- Coordinates
- 54.52625, -1.83672
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Whorlton Suspension Bridge, built between 1829 and 1831 by John and Benjamin Green, is a suspension road bridge over the River Tees. It features rock-faced piers and tooled-and-margined stone pylons. The bridge has a wood-planked roadway supported by wrought-iron suspension chains and links, with a single span measuring almost 53 metres. The battered rectangular-plan piers rise from a massive plinth to a double blocking course, with each pier supporting two battered corniced pylons that flank the roadway and hold the blocks through which the double suspension chains pass. The roadway is situated 10 metres above the river and has plain railings that extend to octagonal end piers with corniced caps, except on the north-west side where the railings connect to a toll house. This bridge is a rare example of an unaltered early 19th-century suspension bridge and is partly located in Whorlton parish.
Local climate
Whorlton Suspension Bridge, Over the River Tees 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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