Towpath Bridge Over Entrance to Canal Basin (Approximately 150 Metres West of Watery Lane) Birmingham Canal Birmingham Level is a Grade II listed building in the Sandwell local planning authority area, England. Towpath bridge.
Towpath Bridge Over Entrance to Canal Basin (Approximately 150 Metres West of Watery Lane) Birmingham Canal Birmingham Level
- WRENN ID
- still-column-coral
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Sandwell
- Constituency
- Tipton and Wednesbury MP: Antonia Bance (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Type
- Towpath bridge
- OS grid reference
- SO 957 923
- Coordinates
- 52.52922, -2.06416
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The towpath bridge over the entrance to the canal basin, located approximately 150 meters west of Watery Lane in Tipton, is a mid-19th century structure. It is made of cast iron and features brick abutments with some sandstone dressings. The bridge has a single shallow segmental arch, and its sides are a single casting that is pierced to create a lattice pattern of saltire crosses. This bridge spans the entrance to a boat yard that was once the Tipton railway interchange basin, which was one of 26 transhipment depots built along the Birmingham Canal starting in the 1850s.
Local climate
Towpath Bridge Over Entrance to Canal Basin (Approximately 150 Metres West of Watery Lane) Birmingham Canal Birmingham Level receives an average of 790 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 58% 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 38 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 73% 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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