Roving Bridge Over Entrance to Birmingham and Warwick Junction Canal at Bordesley Junction with Warwick and Birmingham Canal is a Grade II listed building in the Birmingham local planning authority area, England. First listed on 8 July 1982. A N/A Bridge.
Roving Bridge Over Entrance to Birmingham and Warwick Junction Canal at Bordesley Junction with Warwick and Birmingham Canal
- WRENN ID
- stony-entrance-pine
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Birmingham
- Constituency
- Birmingham Ladywood MP: Shabana Mahmood (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 8 July 1982
- Type
- Bridge
- Period
- N/A
- Address
- Roving Bridge Over Entrance to Birmingham and Warwick Junction Canal at Bordesley Junction with Warwick and Birmingham Canal, Glover Street B9
- OS grid reference
- SP 084 864
- Coordinates
- 52.47569, -1.87712
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Roving Bridge over the entrance to the Birmingham and Warwick Junction Canal at Bordesley Junction with the Warwick and Birmingham Canal dates from around 1840 to 1844. It features a wide elliptical arch and is constructed with a plain X-pattern balustrade made of cast iron, typical of the Horseley type. The bridge is supported by stone-dressed, swept brick abutments.
Local climate
Roving Bridge Over Entrance to Birmingham and Warwick Junction Canal at Bordesley Junction with Warwick and Birmingham Canal 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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