Roving Bridge Over West Entrance to Soho 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 Soho Loop
- WRENN ID
- roaming-iron-snow
- 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 Soho Loop, Heath Street B18
- OS grid reference
- SP 040 881
- Coordinates
- 52.49123, -1.94228
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Roving Bridge over the west entrance to the Soho Loop, located on Heath Street in Winson Green, dates from around 1828. It is a Horseley type cast-iron roving bridge featuring pierced X-pattern balustrades, supported by stone-dressed brick abutments.
Local climate
Roving Bridge Over West Entrance to Soho 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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