Bridge Number 5 Over Ashton Canal is a Grade II listed building in the Manchester local planning authority area, England. First listed on 6 June 1994. Bridge. 1 related planning application.

Bridge Number 5 Over Ashton Canal

WRENN ID
lone-corner-saffron
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Manchester
Constituency
Manchester Central MP: Lucy Powell (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
6 June 1994
Type
Bridge
Address
Bridge Number 5 Over Ashton Canal, Beswick Street
OS grid reference
SJ 857 986
Coordinates
53.484, -2.21584
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Bridge Number 5 over Ashton Canal is a public road bridge located in Manchester, likely built around 1800. It is constructed of brown brick in English garden wall bond, with sandstone dressings. The bridge has a narrow rectangular shape that narrows to the width of the lock. It features a low segmental arch made of brick, which springs from a sandstone base and includes a keystone with an oval cast-iron number plate attached. The design includes broad pilasters and terminal pilasters, a stone band, and a brick parapet topped with stone coping.

Local climate

Bridge Number 5 Over Ashton Canal sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,060 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 85% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 77% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 43 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 84% of listed buildings. Of these, 23 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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