Bridge Carrying Buerton Approach Over Aldford Brook is a Grade II listed building in the Cheshire West and Chester local planning authority area, England. First listed on 2 November 1983. Bridge.
Bridge Carrying Buerton Approach Over Aldford Brook
- WRENN ID
- tall-spandrel-bone
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cheshire West and Chester
- Constituency
- Chester South and Eddisbury MP: Aphra Brandreth (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 2 November 1983
- Type
- Bridge
- Address
- Bridge Carrying Buerton Approach Over Aldford Brook, Buerton Approach to Eaton Hall, Aldford and Saighton
- OS grid reference
- SJ 420 601
- Coordinates
- 53.13513, -2.86822
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The bridge carrying Buerton Approach over Aldford Brook was built in the 1870s for the 3rd Marquis and 1st Duke of Westminster, likely designed by or associated with Alfred Waterhouse. It is constructed from buff sandstone and features cast iron parapet panels. The bridge has three Tudor arches that are separated by buttresses, which stand on rounded, rusticated cutwaters. The lower courses within the archways are also rusticated, and the edges of the arches have recessed quadrant mouldings. The parapets include moulded plinths supported by carved heads acting as corbels, and they have moulded copings. Between the copings are rectangular cast iron panels with cusped quatrefoils that hold shields with armorial bearings in relief. These panels were likely part of railings designed by Porden around 1810 for the forecourt of Eaton Hall, which were removed by Waterhouse. Each side of the bridge has two rectangular piers with one parapet panel between them at each abutment.
Local climate
Bridge Carrying Buerton Approach Over Aldford Brook receives an average of 860 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 61% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 85% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 32 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 57% of listed buildings. Of these, 16 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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