Bridge and Sheepwash Approximately 50 Metres South East of the Old Rectory is a Grade II listed building in the Shropshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 15 October 1984. Bridge.
Bridge and Sheepwash Approximately 50 Metres South East of the Old Rectory
- WRENN ID
- solitary-string-myrtle
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Shropshire
- Constituency
- North Shropshire MP: Helen Morgan (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 15 October 1984
- Type
- Bridge
- OS grid reference
- SJ 335 222
- Coordinates
- 52.79405, -2.9869
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The bridge and sheepwash, located approximately 50 metres south-east of The Old Rectory, dates from around 1819. It is constructed from uncoursed red sandstone rubble with ashlar coping. The bridge features a circular section beneath the road, with a keystone on the south side. The eastern branch of the Weir brook flows underneath the bridge.
To the south, there is a wedge-shaped enclosure defined by walls that are about 1.0 metre high, measuring 10 metres long on the roadside and approximately 5 metres long on the south side. Inside the enclosure, the brook runs through a stone-lined channel that is about 1.5 metres wide. The walls of the enclosure step down once on the east, west, and south sides. Roughly at the centre of the south side, there is a sluice with a timber gate above it. The parapet of the bridge completes the enclosure on the north side, and there are timber picket gates at both the east and west ends of the wall.
Sheep would enter the water from the eastern side, where a depression is still visible, and exit on the west. The sheepwash was in use until around 1940. The Old Rectory is not included in this listing.
Local climate
Bridge and Sheepwash Approximately 50 Metres South East of the Old Rectory receives an average of 820 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 51% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 82% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 41 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 79% of listed buildings. Of these, 22 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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