Swiss Bridge is a Grade II listed building in the Wirral local planning authority area, England. First listed on 28 March 1974. Footbridge.

Swiss Bridge

WRENN ID
dark-threshold-rain
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Wirral
Constituency
Birkenhead MP: Alison McGovern (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
28 March 1974
Type
Footbridge
Address
Swiss Bridge, Birkenhead Park
OS grid reference
SJ 310 890
Coordinates
53.39335, -3.03775
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Swiss Bridge is a footbridge over a lake in Birkenhead Park, built around 1843 to 1847 but extensively renewed since. It features a combination of timber and stone, topped with a tiled roof. The bridge has stone abutments and a timber main structure, with a panelled parapet that is decorated with scallops, chevrons, and bulls eyes. There are wooden railings on the steps on each side. The red tiled roof is supported by wooden columns with four-way bracing and includes ridge cresting.

Local climate

Swiss Bridge sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,080 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 86% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 75% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 19 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 81% of listed buildings. Of these, 9 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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