Eccleston Bridge is a Grade II listed building in the Chorley local planning authority area, England. First listed on 30 January 1987. A C18 Bridge.
Eccleston Bridge
- WRENN ID
- buried-span-burdock
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Chorley
- Constituency
- South Ribble MP: Mr Paul Foster (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 30 January 1987
- Type
- Bridge
- Address
- Eccleston Bridge, Towngate
- OS grid reference
- SD 515 178
- Coordinates
- 53.65451, -2.73496
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Eccleston Bridge is an 18th-century public road bridge made of squared sandstone. It features a single segmental arch supported by voussoirs and a keystone. The bridge has broad pilasters, decorative bands, and a plain parapet that is slightly pointed in the center.
Local climate
Eccleston Bridge sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,220 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 92% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 89% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 30 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 64% of listed buildings. Of these, 14 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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- Sale history — 3 transactions since 2000
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