Canal Bridge Number 52 is a Grade II listed building in the Stratford-on-Avon local planning authority area, England. First listed on 4 January 1990. Bridge.
Canal Bridge Number 52
- WRENN ID
- upper-tracery-equinox
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Stratford-on-Avon
- Constituency
- Stratford-on-Avon MP: Manuela Perteghella (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 4 January 1990
- Type
- Bridge
- Address
- Canal Bridge Number 52, South Stratford Canal, Wootton Wawen
- OS grid reference
- SP 161 632
- Coordinates
- 52.26751, -1.76436
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Canal Bridge Number 52 is a split bridge built around 1812 to 1816, with later additions and restorations, including a concrete covering on the decks. It features brick abutments and walls topped with ashlar copings, along with cast-iron rails and decks. The abutments support two cantilevered decks that have cross-framed integral handrails and are designed with splits for tow ropes. The parapet walls are splayed, although much of the coping on the north-west wall is now missing. The South Stratford Canal, which this bridge serves, was constructed between 1793 and 1816 at a cost of £500,000. In 1960, the National Trust leased 13.5 miles of the canal from Kingswood Junction, Lapworth to Stratford-upon-Avon from the British Waterways Board and obtained the freehold around 1964.
Local climate
Canal Bridge Number 52 receives an average of 760 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 65% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 72% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 40 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 77% of listed buildings. Of these, 19 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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