Bridge 221a Over Leeds and Liverpool Canal is a Grade II listed building in the Leeds local planning authority area, England. First listed on 5 August 1976. Bridge.
Bridge 221a Over Leeds and Liverpool Canal
- WRENN ID
- hallowed-turret-alder
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Leeds
- Constituency
- Leeds Central and Headingley MP: Alex Sobel (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 5 August 1976
- Type
- Bridge
- Address
- Bridge 221a Over Leeds and Liverpool Canal, Leeds and Bradford Road
- OS grid reference
- SE 257 356
- Coordinates
- 53.81666, -1.61013
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The bridge, known as Bridge 221A, carries the Leeds and Bradford Turnpike over the Leeds and Liverpool Canal and its towpath on the eastern side. It was built in 1800 and is constructed from ashlar stone. The bridge features rusticated voussoirs that form an elliptical arch, which is flanked by semicircular rusticated buttresses that rise to create refuges at the roadside. There is also a secondary narrow round arch on the eastern side of the canal. At road level, there is a band, and the moulded parapet coping extends to circular bollards on the ramped roadside. The Leeds and Bradford Turnpike road was designed by Jonathan Teale, and this bridge is depicted in JMW Turner's painting of 'Kirkstall Lock' from 1824.
Local climate
Bridge 221a Over Leeds and Liverpool Canal receives an average of 870 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 62% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 56% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 41 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 79% of listed buildings. Of these, 22 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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