Central and Easternmost Packhorse Bridges and Adjoining Causeway is a Grade II listed building in the Cheshire West and Chester local planning authority area, England. First listed on 1 March 1967. Bridge.
Central and Easternmost Packhorse Bridges and Adjoining Causeway
- WRENN ID
- over-corner-spring
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cheshire West and Chester
- Constituency
- Chester South and Eddisbury MP: Aphra Brandreth (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 1 March 1967
- Type
- Bridge
- OS grid reference
- SJ 476 657
- Coordinates
- 53.18612, -2.78475
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The central and easternmost Packhorse Bridges and the adjoining causeway, likely built in the later 18th century, consist of two humpback bridges made from dressed tooled red sandstone blocks. The bridge spanning the main channel of the River Gowy features a recessed segmental arch supported by mass concrete footings, with a plain parapet and chamfered coping secured by iron ties. The parapet extends and drops to create revetment walls on both approaches. A stone-revetted causeway runs eastward to a second, smaller bridge, which is similar in design but includes two triangular buttresses on the north side. The westernmost Packhorse Bridge and part of one of these bridges are located in Cotton Edmunds parish.
Local climate
Central and Easternmost Packhorse Bridges and Adjoining Causeway receives an average of 890 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 66% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 73% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 32 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 59% of listed buildings. Of these, 15 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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