Tern Bridge is a Grade II* listed building in the Shropshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 29 January 1952. A Georgian Bridge.
Tern Bridge
- WRENN ID
- roaming-quoin-azure
- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- Shropshire
- Constituency
- South Shropshire MP: Stuart Anderson (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 29 January 1952
- Type
- Bridge
- Period
- Georgian
- Address
- Tern Bridge, B4380, West Midlands, Wroxeter and Uppington, SY5 6QJ
- OS grid reference
- SJ 552 093
- Coordinates
- 52.67966, -2.66334
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Tern Bridge is a road bridge built between 1771 and 1780, designed by William Hayward for the County of Shropshire and Noel Hill, 2nd Baron of Berwick. The road was widened in 1932.
The bridge is made of grey sandstone ashlar and features a single, wide, segmental arch with rusticated voussoirs. At the center of the arch, there is a triple keystone with fluted keys on either side of a central carved face. Above this, a continuous frieze and cornice support a balustrade parapet, which is interrupted by intermittent square blocking. Each end of the arch has an arched niche flanked by rusticated Tuscan half-columns, and the parapet above projects forward from the bridge line. The bridge is surrounded by curved retaining walls that include square-end piers and battered buttresses. A plaque in the center of the parapet states, "THIS BRIDGE/WAS ERECTED AT THE EXPENSE OF THE COUNTY/A.D. MDCCLXXX/ AND DECORATED AT THE EXPENSE OF/NOEL HILL ESQ/WILLIAM HAYWARD ARCHITECT." Smaller plates indicate that the bridge was "WIDENED 1932 BY/THE REINFORCED CONCRETE/CONSTRUCTION CO LTD/OLD TRAFFORD MANCHESTER."
Local climate
Tern Bridge receives an average of 750 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 70% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 98% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 47 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 88% of listed buildings. Of these, 24 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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