Canal Bridge Number 17 Valentine House Bridge is a Grade II listed building in the Preston local planning authority area, England. First listed on 13 January 1986. Bridge.
Canal Bridge Number 17 Valentine House Bridge
- WRENN ID
- long-mullion-mist
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Preston
- Constituency
- Preston MP: Sir Mark Hendrick (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 13 January 1986
- Type
- Bridge
- Address
- Canal Bridge Number 17 Valentine House Bridge, Valentines Lane, Lea
- OS grid reference
- SD 502 315
- Coordinates
- 53.77772, -2.75579
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Canal Bridge Number 17, also known as Valentine House Bridge, is an accommodation bridge over the Lancaster Canal, built in the 1790s. The engineer responsible for its design was John Rennie. The bridge is constructed from squared sandstone and features an elliptical arch with triple keystones, decorative bands, parapets, and pilastered ends.
Local climate
Canal Bridge Number 17 Valentine House Bridge sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,320 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 95% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 25 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 74% of listed buildings. Of these, 10 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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