Walton Lea Bridge is a Grade II listed building in the Warrington local planning authority area, England. First listed on 23 December 1983. Road bridge. 7 related planning applications.
Walton Lea Bridge
- WRENN ID
- tenth-pediment-thistle
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Warrington
- Constituency
- Warrington South MP: Sarah Hall (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 23 December 1983
- Type
- Road bridge
- Address
- Walton Lea Bridge, Walton Lea Road, WA4 6SN
- OS grid reference
- SJ 600 851
- Coordinates
- 53.36189, -2.60205
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Walton Lea Bridge is a road bridge, likely built around 1770 by James Brindley for the Duke of Bridgewater. It carries the drive from Walton Lea Road across the Bridgewater Canal to Walton Hall Park. The bridge is constructed of stone-dressed brown brick and features a deep segmental arch with a raised stone band around the brick voussoirs. It has quadrant abutments with rounded flush copings made of stone and square stone-coped end-piers. The parapets, which were probably added around 1838, include rectangular recessed panels. Additionally, there is an oak rubbing-post for towropes located at the west corner of the south abutment.
Local climate
Walton Lea Bridge 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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- Related listed building consents — 7 applications
- 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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