Canal Bridge No 114 Nixons Bridge is a Grade II listed building in the Cheshire West and Chester local planning authority area, England. First listed on 30 January 1985. Bridge.
Canal Bridge No 114 Nixons Bridge
- WRENN ID
- muffled-belfry-spring
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cheshire West and Chester
- Constituency
- Chester South and Eddisbury MP: Aphra Brandreth (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 30 January 1985
- Type
- Bridge
- Address
- Canal Bridge No 114 Nixons Bridge, Hargrave and Huxley
- OS grid reference
- SJ 488 608
- Coordinates
- 53.14227, -2.76578
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Nixon's Bridge, also known as Canal Bridge No. 114, is a canal accommodation bridge built around 1776 by Samuel Weston for the Chester Canal Company. It is constructed of washed orange brick and features a segmental arch supported by curving piers, with stone springers and a keyblock. Above the arch, there is a raised stone band, and the bridge has curving wing walls. The plain parapet has flat stone coping that steps down over the wing walls. Additionally, there are stone steps located at the north-west corner of the bridge.
Local climate
Canal Bridge No 114 Nixons Bridge receives an average of 850 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 58% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 81% 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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