Old Quay Bridge is a Grade II listed building in the Halton local planning authority area, England. First listed on 31 October 1983. Bridge. 1 related planning application.
Old Quay Bridge
- WRENN ID
- slow-forge-reed
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Halton
- Constituency
- Runcorn and Helsby MP: Sarah Pochin (RUK)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 31 October 1983
- Type
- Bridge
- Address
- Old Quay Bridge, Old Quay Street, WA7 1RR
- OS grid reference
- SJ 520 832
- Coordinates
- 53.34406, -2.72201
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Old Quay Bridge is a swing bridge over the Manchester Ship Canal, built around 1894. It features a steel segmented arched rivetted structure with a lattice parapet, built-up stanchions, cross braces, and high-level bracing across the carriageway. The bridge is operated from the south bank using a hydraulic system that involves three slate-roofed red brick buildings: the Engine House, which contains two Crossley diesel engines and pumps (with one set always in reserve), the Accumulator Tower, which houses a large gravitational piston, and the Control Building. These buildings have blue brick plinths and arches, stone heads and window sills, timber windows, and hipped roofs.
Local climate
Old Quay Bridge receives an average of 940 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 72% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 59% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 32 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 58% 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2018
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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