Blaydon Old Bridge is a Grade II listed building in the Gateshead local planning authority area, England. First listed on 28 June 2000. Bridge.
Blaydon Old Bridge
- WRENN ID
- keen-cloister-martin
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Gateshead
- Constituency
- Blaydon and Consett MP: Liz Twist (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 28 June 2000
- Type
- Bridge
- OS grid reference
- NZ 180 635
- Coordinates
- 54.9664, -1.71958
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Blaydon Old Bridge is a road bridge over Blaydon Burn, built in 1778 and altered in 1936. It was constructed for the Hexham Turnpike Trust using coursed and dressed stone with ashlar dressings. The bridge features a single round arch.
On the north front, the arch is made of rusticated voussoirs, flanked by single slightly projecting ashlar piers, with irregularly coursed walling beyond. Above this, there is an ashlar band at road level and a plain ashlar parapet with chamfered coping.
The south front has a similar design but is partly obscured by a large mid-20th century steel sewage pipe supported by rock-faced piers on either side. The eastern end of this front is also obscured by a pier from a large road bridge added in 1936.
Local climate
Blaydon Old Bridge receives an average of 820 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 51% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 99% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 33 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 54% of listed buildings. Of these, 20 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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