Wood Lane Bridge is a Grade II listed building in the Kirklees local planning authority area, England. First listed on 9 November 2017. Bridge.
Wood Lane Bridge
- WRENN ID
- moated-minaret-magpie
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Kirklees
- Constituency
- Dewsbury and Batley MP: Iqbal Mohamed (Ind)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 9 November 2017
- Type
- Bridge
- Address
- Wood Lane Bridge, Dewsbury, WF13 1RW
- OS grid reference
- SE 245 225
- Coordinates
- 53.69862, -1.62984
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Wood Lane Bridge is a bridge built in the mid-1840s by Thomas Grainger, located about half a mile northeast of Dewsbury Station. It carries Wood Lane, which is now a footpath, over the Leeds, Dewsbury & Manchester Railway line. The bridge slopes downwards from east to west due to the terrain.
It is constructed from coursed local rock-faced sandstone with ashlar dressings and features a segmental arched span. The arch incorporates rusticated voussoirs that spring from ashlar quoined jambs and an ashlar impost band. Above the arch, there is a projecting ashlar stringcourse that forms a carriageway band, and the parapet is made of larger coursed rock-faced sandstone blocks topped with large rounded ashlar coping stones. Notably, the coping stone at the far eastern end of the north parapet has been replaced by a roughcast concrete block.
The approach walls attached to the bridge include a substantial red-brick and sandstone wall added in 1880 on the west side to divert Wood Lane for the construction of a neighbouring railway line, which is now removed. However, these approach walls are not of special interest and are excluded from the listing.
Local climate
Wood Lane Bridge receives an average of 890 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 65% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 52% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 38 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 73% of listed buildings. Of these, 20 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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