Water Orton Bridge is a Grade II* listed building in the Birmingham local planning authority area, England. First listed on 18 October 1949. A Tudor Bridge.
Water Orton Bridge
- WRENN ID
- drifting-buttress-ebony
- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- Birmingham
- Constituency
- Sutton Coldfield MP: Sir Andrew Mitchell (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 18 October 1949
- Type
- Bridge
- Period
- Tudor
- OS grid reference
- SP 174 914
- Coordinates
- 52.52041, -1.74489
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Water Orton Bridge is a road bridge built around 1520 on the site of an earlier bridge, commissioned by Bishop John Vesey of Exeter, with later repairs. It is constructed of ashlar sandstone and spans the River Tame. The bridge features six semi-circular arches, each 5 meters wide, finished with stone voussoirs. Between the arches are 2-meter-wide piers with V-shaped cutwaters on either side, extending to the full height of the bridge up to the parapet level. The coped parapets are plain, and there are stone drainage spouts located above the two central arches.
Local climate
Water Orton Bridge receives an average of 770 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 63% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 74% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 36 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 64% of listed buildings. Of these, 17 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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