Bridge Number 59, Grand Union Canal is a Grade II listed building in the Harborough local planning authority area, England. First listed on 9 March 1989. Bridge.

Bridge Number 59, Grand Union Canal

WRENN ID
fallen-chapel-scarlet
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Harborough
Constituency
Harborough, Oadby and Wigston MP: Neil O'Brien (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
9 March 1989
Type
Bridge
Address
Bridge Number 59, Grand Union Canal, Lubenham
OS grid reference
SP 687 884
Coordinates
52.48972, -0.98863
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Bridge Number 59 on the Grand Union Canal is an early 19th-century structure made of brick. It features coping and end buttresses with coping stones, as well as a brick band and a brick segmental arch. The Grand Union Canal was engineered by Benjamin Bevan and completed in 1814.

Local climate

Bridge Number 59, Grand Union Canal receives an average of 750 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 72% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 75% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 38 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 73% 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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