Bridge Over Railway Circa 150 Metres South West of Turton Tower is a Grade II listed building in the Blackburn with Darwen local planning authority area, England. Bridge.
Bridge Over Railway Circa 150 Metres South West of Turton Tower
- WRENN ID
- crumbling-floor-falcon
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Blackburn with Darwen
- Constituency
- Rossendale and Darwen MP: Andy MacNae (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Type
- Bridge
- OS grid reference
- SD 729 151
- Coordinates
- 53.632, -2.41098
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The bridge over the railway, located approximately 150 metres southwest of Turton Tower, was constructed between 1847 and 1848 for the Blackburn, Darwen and Bolton Railway. The resident engineer for the project was Terence Flanagan. Built from rock-faced and ashlared gritstone, the bridge features a medieval style with a four-centred arch. At the west end, piers rise above the parapet, forming rectangular machicolated turrets. The turret on the south side includes a viewing deck that is accessed by steps and is protected by a stepped parapet. The ashlared parapets, which are stepped above the centre of the arch, have cross-shaped arrow slits and terminate with polygonal pseudo-turrets on the outer faces. Each of these also has a corbelled pseudo-turret on the outer face, with its machicolated cap resting on the coping. This bridge is the more elaborate of two bridges built as part of an agreement with James Kay of Turton Tower, who was a director of the railway company.
Local climate
Bridge Over Railway Circa 150 Metres South West of Turton Tower sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,120 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 88% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 81% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 47 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 88% of listed buildings. Of these, 27 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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