St Johns Road Footbridge is a Grade II listed building in the South Holland local planning authority area, England. First listed on 4 May 1999. Railway footbridge. 1 related planning application.

St Johns Road Footbridge

WRENN ID
brooding-forge-rowan
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
South Holland
Constituency
South Holland and The Deepings MP: Sir John Hayes (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
4 May 1999
Type
Railway footbridge
Address
St Johns Road Footbridge, PE11 2YD
OS grid reference
TF 241 223
Coordinates
52.78465, -0.16038
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

St John's Road Footbridge is a railway footbridge built around 1860 for the Great Northern Railway Company. It is constructed from wrought iron and timber. The bridge features two square corner towers, one at each end, which consist of two round-headed arches each supported by four corner girders connected by lattice work cross pieces. These supports have curved and splayed bases. There are additional round-headed supporting arches of a similar design that carry the bridge decking.

Single long flights of steps lead up to the main corner towers, which have iron lattice balustrades and newel posts made from four corner girders with curved and splayed bases. A curved and stepped section connects the corner towers to the main bridge span, which has a continuous lattice balustrade and arched external supports. The deck of the bridge changes direction at the center.

This footbridge is a very rare and large-scale example of railway footbridge design featuring an unusual wrought-iron construction.

Local climate

St Johns Road Footbridge sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 710 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 88% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 85% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 30 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 64% of listed buildings. Of these, 14 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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