Lumb Brook Bridge (An Aqueduct) is a Grade II listed building in the Warrington local planning authority area, England. First listed on 23 December 1983. Aqueduct.
Lumb Brook Bridge (An Aqueduct)
- WRENN ID
- fossil-gravel-thrush
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Warrington
- Constituency
- Warrington South MP: Sarah Hall (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 23 December 1983
- Type
- Aqueduct
- Address
- Lumb Brook Bridge (An Aqueduct), Lumb Brook Road, Stockton Heath
- OS grid reference
- SJ 622 860
- Coordinates
- 53.37026, -2.56946
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Lumb Brook Bridge is an aqueduct that carries the Bridgewater Canal, built in 1770 by James Brindley for the Duke of Bridgewater. The structure is made of squared snecked Cyclopean blocks of red and yellow sandstone, with red brick lining for the deep segmental arch that spans Lumb Brook Road. The abutments are slightly concave, broadly canted, and battered. There is a ramped path leading from the road to the towpath, featuring sandstone retaining walls and a simple post-and-rail fence. A curved brick parapet wall, which has six rectangular recessed panels on the outer side and concrete coping (likely rebuilt in the mid-20th century), protects the towpath.
Additionally, a semicircular arched sandstone culvert carries Lumb Brook diagonally beneath the road through the aqueduct. The northern half of the aqueduct is located in Stockton Heath civil parish.
Local climate
Lumb Brook Bridge (An Aqueduct) sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,000 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 80% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 65% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 35 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 59% of listed buildings. Of these, 17 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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