Bridge Over Avenue Ponds is a Grade II listed building in the Leeds local planning authority area, England. First listed on 5 August 1976. Bridge.
Bridge Over Avenue Ponds
- WRENN ID
- far-eave-aspen
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Leeds
- Constituency
- Leeds East MP: Richard Burgon (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 5 August 1976
- Type
- Bridge
- Address
- Bridge Over Avenue Ponds, Temple Newsam Park
- OS grid reference
- SE 369 317
- Coordinates
- 53.78077, -1.44037
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The bridge over Avenue Ponds, located in Temple Newsam Park, was built in 1714 by William Etty of York. It features a coursed stone string course and an ashlar parapet with plain stone coping, supported by large square piers at either end that have heavy moulded caps. The bridge spans where the East Avenue crosses Avenue Ponds and is designed like a dam wall, complete with a sluice at the center that has an elliptical arch on the south side. Although the parapet on the south side has collapsed, the end piers remain, though the capstones are missing from the northwest and southeast piers. The current East Avenue, bridge, and ponds were initiated under Etty's direction and took five years to complete. This project reflects an early appreciation for natural landscape beauty, which later influenced the pastoral style of Capability Brown, who was commissioned for further improvements in 1762. The mouldings on the bridge are similar to those found at Castle Howard.
Local climate
Bridge Over Avenue Ponds receives an average of 770 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 63% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 95% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 39 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 74% of listed buildings. Of these, 19 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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