Grand Sluice Railway Bridge is a Grade II listed building in the Boston local planning authority area, England. First listed on 2 May 1986. Railway bridge. 3 related planning applications.
Grand Sluice Railway Bridge
- WRENN ID
- crooked-loggia-smoke
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Boston
- Constituency
- Boston and Skegness MP: Richard Tice (RUK)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 2 May 1986
- Type
- Railway bridge
- Address
- Grand Sluice Railway Bridge, Witham Bank
- OS grid reference
- TF 323 445
- Coordinates
- 52.98189, -0.03012
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Grand Sluice Railway Bridge is a railway bridge built between 1884 and 1885 by Richard Johnson, the chief engineer of the Great Northern Railway. It features a riveted cast-iron structure with a timber deck and red brick abutments. This double track skew bridge spans the River Witham and adjacent roadways on the north-west side of the Grand Sluice.
The bridge consists of three spans. The outer spans are supported by three parallel segmental iron arches, which are braced with lattice strips in the spandrels. These arches rest on outer brick abutments and inner circular caisson piers that are set into the river bed, with one pier for each arch. The narrower central span is supported by horizontal solid plate girders.
This bridge was constructed to replace an earlier iron and timber bridge and was built by Stanningley Iron Works in Leeds. It was opened to traffic on 20 May 1885 and remains in use today.
Local climate
Grand Sluice Railway Bridge sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 690 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 96% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 79% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 25 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 73% of listed buildings. Of these, 12 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 3 applications
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