White Bridge and attached wall and gate piers is a Grade II listed building in the Staffordshire Moorlands local planning authority area, England. First listed on 3 January 1967. Bridge.
White Bridge and attached wall and gate piers
- WRENN ID
- forbidden-joist-solstice
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Staffordshire Moorlands
- Constituency
- Staffordshire Moorlands MP: Dame Karen Bradley (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 3 January 1967
- Type
- Bridge
- Address
- White Bridge and attached wall and gate piers, Alton Park, Farley
- OS grid reference
- SK 073 433
- Coordinates
- 52.98699, -1.89174
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
White Bridge, along with its attached wall and gate piers, dates from the early 19th century. It is constructed from ashlar stone featuring edged herringbone tooling and smooth-faced ashlar dressings. The bridge runs north-south, with a wall attached to the south that extends westward and ends in gate piers. The bridge is positioned to the right and the wall to the left.
The bridge features a single four-centred arch with a moulded surround and a balustrade adorned with trefoil-headed arcading, painted white. This balustrade sweeps around to the front and ends in stepped buttresses. To the left, there is a crenellated abutment with a round-headed niche, which ramps down to a pedestalled buttress. The attached wall has a lobed top and includes a four-centred archway flanked by panelled pilasters and a keystone. The wall is finished with a pair of square-section piers that have chamfered rustication and pyramidal caps.
White Bridge and its wall and gate piers create a cohesive architectural feature that encloses the Italian Garden to the northwest. This structure is part of the significant garden layout at Alton Towers, which is listed at Grade I on the Historic Buildings and Monuments Commission Gardens Register.
Local climate
White Bridge and attached wall and gate piers receives an average of 880 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 64% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 54% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 43 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 81% of listed buildings. Of these, 23 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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