Number 16 Bridge on Peak Forest Canal is a Grade II listed building in the Stockport local planning authority area, England. First listed on 11 October 1985. Bridge.
Number 16 Bridge on Peak Forest Canal
- WRENN ID
- leaning-finial-burdock
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Stockport
- Constituency
- Hazel Grove MP: Lisa Smart (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 11 October 1985
- Type
- Bridge
- OS grid reference
- SJ 957 900
- Coordinates
- 53.40718, -2.0657
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Number 16 Bridge on the Peak Forest Canal is a roving bridge built between 1794 and 1801, designed by engineers Benjamin Outram and Thomas Brown. It is constructed from roughly dressed stone with finely dressed copings. The bridge features a semi-circular arch, a stone band, and rounded copings. The retaining or parapet walls are curved in shape, with one end ending in a square pier and the other gracefully sloping down to the tow-path level.
Local climate
Number 16 Bridge on Peak Forest Canal sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,040 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 84% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 74% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 45 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 86% of listed buildings. Of these, 25 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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