Swanley Bridge Number 8 is a Grade II listed building in the Cheshire East local planning authority area, England. First listed on 4 July 1986. Road bridge. 2 related planning applications.
Swanley Bridge Number 8
- WRENN ID
- brooding-iron-bistre
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cheshire East
- Constituency
- Chester South and Eddisbury MP: Aphra Brandreth (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 4 July 1986
- Type
- Road bridge
- Address
- Swanley Bridge Number 8, Swanley Lane, Burland and Acton, CW5 8NR
- OS grid reference
- SJ 617 525
- Coordinates
- 53.06858, -2.57253
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Swanley Bridge Number 8 is a public road bridge built around 1793, located over the Llangollen Branch of the Shropshire Union Canal. It is constructed from engineering bricks with an added surface treatment. The bridge features splayed out abutments and a semi-circular arch, along with a one brick deep projecting carriageway level ring. There is stone and concrete replacement edging to the canal beneath the arch, but no paving is present. The approach walls have splayed parapets, and the carriageway is humped with rounded stone parapet copings and rounded return ends on the pier caps.
Local climate
Swanley Bridge Number 8 receives an average of 850 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 60% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 69% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 36 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 64% of listed buildings. Of these, 18 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 2 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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