Town Bridge Over Weaver Navigation, and Control Cabin is a Grade II listed building in the Cheshire West and Chester local planning authority area, England. First listed on 19 August 1986. A C19 Bridge.

Town Bridge Over Weaver Navigation, and Control Cabin

WRENN ID
leaning-stair-rook
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Cheshire West and Chester
Constituency
Mid Cheshire MP: Andrew Cooper (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
19 August 1986
Type
Bridge
Address
Town Bridge Over Weaver Navigation, and Control Cabin, Bull Ring, Northwich
OS grid reference
SJ 656 738
Coordinates
53.26048, -2.51603
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Town Bridge over Weaver Navigation and Control Cabin is a swing bridge built in 1899. It features a steel structure with one pivoted span supported by asymmetrical bowstring lattice girders, with the pivot located on the west bank of the river. At the west end of the bridge, there is a barrier with a spiked railing along the railway track, and at the east end, a pair of steel gates stands on ornate cast iron posts. Each girder at the west end bears a cast iron plaque inscribed in raised capitals, stating it was erected by the Weaver Navigation Trustees in 1899, with engineer J.A. Saner and contractor A. Handyside & Company Ltd. from Derby and London.

North of the bridge on the west bank is a timber-framed, weatherboarded control cabin, which has a wide-eaved hipped roof adorned with ornate finials. The cabin features small-pane casements that create a continuous band along the riverside and ends. A fixed steel ladder with a guardrail leads down to the river bank. This bridge and Hayhurst Bridge are believed to be the earliest electrically powered swing bridges in Britain.

Local climate

Town Bridge Over Weaver Navigation, and Control Cabin sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 970 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 78% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 51% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 40 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 78% of listed buildings. Of these, 22 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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