Bridge Carrying Buerton Approach Over Chester Road is a Grade II listed building in the Cheshire West and Chester local planning authority area, England. First listed on 2 November 1983. Bridge. 2 related planning applications.

Bridge Carrying Buerton Approach Over Chester Road

WRENN ID
ancient-parapet-vetch
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 Chester Road, Buerton Approach and Chester Road, Aldford and Saighton
OS grid reference
SJ 421 601
Coordinates
53.13564, -2.86549
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

This bridge, built in the 1870s for the 3rd Marquis and 1st Duke of Westminster, is attributed to Alfred Waterhouse or associated with him. It is constructed from rock-faced sandstone with ashlar quoins and voussoirs. The bridge features a single basket arch with quadrant moulded arrises and has projecting rectangular piers on each side. The abutments end in smaller rectangular piers. The parapets are similar to those on the bridge over Aldford Brook and include cast iron panels designed around 1810, which were removed by Waterhouse from the forecourt of Eaton Hall.

Local climate

Bridge Carrying Buerton Approach Over Chester Road 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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