Bridge over Railway is a Grade II listed building in the Amber Valley local planning authority area, England. First listed on 13 December 1979. Bridge.
Bridge over Railway
- WRENN ID
- deep-wicket-crimson
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Amber Valley
- Constituency
- Mid Derbyshire MP: Jonathan Davies (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 13 December 1979
- Type
- Bridge
- Address
- Bridge over Railway, Joseph Street, Belper
- OS grid reference
- SK 347 477
- Coordinates
- 53.02619, -1.48297
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The building is a road bridge over a railway, constructed between 1837 and 1840, with minor alterations made in the late 20th century. It is believed to have been built to a standard design, with an indenture from December 5, 1837, referencing specifications and plans prepared under the direction of George Stephenson and Frederick Swanwick, the principal engineers for the North Midland Railway Company.
The bridge is made of ashlar and regularly coursed squared Derbyshire gritstone. It features a single arch that carries a section of road on a residential street over the railway, aligned east-west.
The exterior of the bridge includes a wide elliptical arch that rises from ashlar skewbacks, with ashlar voussoirs beneath a deep roll moulding. Above the moulding is an ashlar plinth course and two courses of rectangular gritstone blocks that form the parapet walls. The bridge is topped with deep, wide ashlar copings that have rounded upper edges. Substantial abutments at either end of the bridge are detailed with V-jointed ashlar quoins. The roll moulding of the bridge extends into the adjacent flanking walls of the railway cutting.
Local climate
Bridge over Railway receives an average of 780 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 60% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 67% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 38 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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