Horse Bridge Over River 250 Metres South West of Dutton Lock is a Grade II listed building in the Cheshire West and Chester local planning authority area, England. First listed on 4 May 1979. Footbridge. 1 related planning application.
Horse Bridge Over River 250 Metres South West of Dutton Lock
- WRENN ID
- stranded-banister-river
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cheshire West and Chester
- Constituency
- Tatton MP: Esther McVey (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 4 May 1979
- Type
- Footbridge
- OS grid reference
- SJ 584 767
- Coordinates
- 53.28599, -2.62516
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Horse Bridge over the river, located 250 meters southwest of Dutton Lock, is a footbridge built in 1915 by engineer A. Saver for the Weaver Navigation Trust. This bridge features two long segmental arches made of laminated timber that support a slightly arched footway, which is reinforced by triangulated timber strutting. It has plain post-and-rail parapets, concrete springers, and brick abutments topped with weathered concrete copings. This elegant structure exemplifies the functional design typical of waterways from that period. It is one of the earliest surviving examples of a pre-stressed laminated timber structure, with the arches spanning 100 feet 7 inches and 101 feet 7 inches. Working drawings and a colored elevation from 1915 can be found at the BWB Office on Navigation Road in Northwich.
Local climate
Horse Bridge Over River 250 Metres South West of Dutton Lock receives an average of 950 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 74% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 55% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 38 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 73% of listed buildings. Of these, 20 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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