Bridge Over Railway is a Grade II listed building in the St. Helens local planning authority area, England. First listed on 14 April 1976. Bridge. 6 related planning applications.
Bridge Over Railway
- WRENN ID
- final-ashlar-claret
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- St. Helens
- Constituency
- St Helens South and Whiston MP: Ms Marie Rimmer (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 14 April 1976
- Type
- Bridge
- Address
- Bridge Over Railway, New Street, WA12 8DG
- OS grid reference
- SJ 522 926
- Coordinates
- 53.42812, -2.72017
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This is a bridge over a railway, built around 1830 by George Stephenson for the Liverpool and Manchester Railway. The bridge is constructed from rusticated stone and features a round arch with radiating voussoirs and an impost band. It has flanking pilaster strips and curved retaining walls. The parapet is set on a raised band, and there is a cast iron plate with the number 78 on the west side.
Local climate
Bridge Over Railway sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,000 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 80% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 63% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 31 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 61% of listed buildings. Of these, 15 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
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 6 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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