Roving Bridge Over West Entrance to Rotton Park Loop is a Grade II listed building in the Birmingham local planning authority area, England. First listed on 8 July 1982. Bridge.

Roving Bridge Over West Entrance to Rotton Park Loop

WRENN ID
vacant-niche-furze
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Birmingham
Constituency
Birmingham Ladywood MP: Shabana Mahmood (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
8 July 1982
Type
Bridge
Address
Roving Bridge Over West Entrance to Rotton Park Loop, Wiggin Street B16
OS grid reference
SP 049 873
Coordinates
52.48423, -1.92921
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Roving Bridge over the west entrance to Rotton Park Loop, dated 1854, is a cast iron bridge that is more decorative than typical examples from the Horsley ironworks. It features a ribbed pierced X-pattern balustrade, which is of a slighter section, along with X-braced open work panels and a pierced quatrefoil band beneath the handrail.

Local climate

Roving Bridge Over West Entrance to Rotton Park Loop receives an average of 780 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 60% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 76% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 39 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 75% 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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