Hills Bridge (SPC8 63) is a Grade II listed building in the North East Derbyshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 11 February 2014. Bridge.
Hills Bridge (SPC8 63)
- WRENN ID
- dark-dormer-sorrel
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- North East Derbyshire
- Constituency
- Bolsover MP: Natalie Fleet (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 11 February 2014
- Type
- Bridge
- Address
- Hills Bridge (SPC8 63), 200m North of Back Lane, Wessington, Brackenfield
- OS grid reference
- SK 385 583
- Coordinates
- 53.12107, -1.4255
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Hills Bridge is a single-span accommodation underbridge built between 1836 and 1840 for the North Midland Railway, designed by George and Robert Stephenson with Frederick Swanwick.
The bridge is constructed from Derbyshire gritstone, featuring both rusticated ashlar and coursed and squared quarry-faced stone, with a red brick soffit. The two faces of the bridge are essentially identical. It has a single, semi-circular arch made of rusticated, V-channelled voussoirs that spring from an impost band, topped with a projecting keystone. The spandrels and abutments are also made of rusticated V-channelled ashlar with tooled detailing. The arch soffit is finished in red brick. Below the soffit and impost bands, the underside walls are slightly raked. The arch is framed by projecting, gently curved wing walls made of coursed and squared quarry-faced stone with tooled ashlar quoins. Above the arch, there is a parapet that consists of one projecting course of tooled ashlar and a deeper course above it. The parapet is topped with 20th-century metal railings.
Local climate
Hills Bridge (SPC8 63) 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 70% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 39 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 75% 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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