Foss Bridge Over the River Wansbeck is a Grade II listed building in the Northumberland local planning authority area, England. First listed on 6 May 1952. Bridge.

Foss Bridge Over the River Wansbeck

WRENN ID
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Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Northumberland
Constituency
Hexham MP: Joe Morris (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
6 May 1952
Type
Bridge
Address
Foss Bridge Over the River Wansbeck, Mitford
OS grid reference
NZ 170 856
Coordinates
55.16443, -1.73371
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Foss Bridge, over the River Wansbeck, is a bridge from the mid-18th century. It is constructed of tooled-and-margined stone featuring ashlar voussoirs and a parapet. The bridge has two segmental arches with a triangular cutwater between them. The arch rings are complemented by a band below the parapet. The thin parapet includes three shallow pilasters on each internal face and has gabled coping that ends in round piers with banded domed caps set on square bases.

Local climate

Foss Bridge Over the River Wansbeck receives an average of 850 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 58% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 71% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 20 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 78% of listed buildings. Of these, 13 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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