Clays Farm Bridge is a Grade II listed building in the Cheshire East local planning authority area, England. First listed on 6 July 1984. Bridge.
Clays Farm Bridge
- WRENN ID
- drifting-timber-fog
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cheshire East
- Constituency
- Chester South and Eddisbury MP: Aphra Brandreth (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 6 July 1984
- Type
- Bridge
- Address
- Clays Farm Bridge, Main Road, Alpraham and Calveley
- OS grid reference
- SJ 590 587
- Coordinates
- 53.12473, -2.6136
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Clays Farm Bridge is an accommodation bridge built around 1779, likely designed by J Clowes or possibly by Thomas Telford during restorations in 1797. It spans the Chester to Nantwich section of the Shropshire Union Canal and is constructed of red brick with stone copings. The bridge features a projecting carriage arch that is one brick deep and has a steep hump, accommodating only one vehicle width, but it is flanked by wide curved parapets on both approaches.
On the south side, there is a narrow tunnel that runs west to east through the abutments. This tunnel has a semicircular arch with an inverted arch base and stops just short of the east side of the bridge, where it includes four ventilation holes. The tunnel serves as a storage space for timbers used in canal drainage and repair work. The coping on the west parapet is rectangular, while the east parapet has a semicircular coping; both feature metal cramps and appear to be original.
Local climate
Clays Farm Bridge 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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