Bridge at South End of Railway Embankment Between Avenham Park and Miller Park is a Grade II listed building in the Preston local planning authority area, England. First listed on 20 December 1991. Bridge. 2 related planning applications.
Bridge at South End of Railway Embankment Between Avenham Park and Miller Park
- WRENN ID
- swift-balcony-ebony
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Preston
- Constituency
- Preston MP: Sir Mark Hendrick (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 20 December 1991
- Type
- Bridge
- OS grid reference
- SD 537 286
- Coordinates
- 53.75173, -2.70268
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The bridge at the south end of the railway embankment between Avenham Park and Miller Park was built around 1846 for the Blackburn and Preston Railway Company, with Sturges Meek as the resident engineer. It is constructed of red brick with sandstone dressings and features a single span that connects the south end of the embankment to the north end of the viaduct over the river. The bridge has a tall round-headed arch made of rusticated stone voussoirs, a brick parapet with stone coping, and terminal pilasters on the north side with rusticated quoins and a plain band. At the north end of the east side, there is a long flight of steps that leads up at right angles to a pedestrian walkway along the viaduct. This bridge, along with the railway bridge over the drive at the north end of the embankment, was a key part of the landscaping required by Preston Corporation as they began to develop Avenham Park in the mid-1840s.
Local climate
Bridge at South End of Railway Embankment Between Avenham Park and Miller Park sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,300 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 95% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 92% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 32 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 60% 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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- No EPC on record for this property
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- Related listed building consents — 2 applications
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