Blackwell Road Railway Under Bridge at NGR SO9884371537 is a Grade II listed building in the Bromsgrove local planning authority area, England. First listed on 6 October 2011. Railway under bridge.
Blackwell Road Railway Under Bridge at NGR SO9884371537
- WRENN ID
- roaming-mortar-meadow
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Bromsgrove
- Constituency
- Bromsgrove MP: Bradley Thomas (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 6 October 2011
- Type
- Railway under bridge
- Address
- Blackwell Road Railway Under Bridge at NGR SO9884371537, Blackwell Road Railway Under Bridge Ay Ngr So9884371537, Tutnall and Cobley
- OS grid reference
- SO 988 715
- Coordinates
- 52.34193, -2.0184
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Blackwell Road Railway Under Bridge is a railway under bridge and wing walls, built around 1838 to 1840 by engineer Captain William Scarth Morsom, with assistance from Herbert Spencer, for the Birmingham and Gloucester Railway Company.
Constructed from coursed picked-work local sandstone, this single-span under bridge allows Blackwell Road to pass under the Lickey Incline. It features a single horseshoe arch made of carefully built stonework, with picked-work voussoirs and keystones that rise from dressed springing stones. Above the arch, there is a string course, and a parapet wall with a projecting coved cornice, which is topped by light steel safety railings. The intrados is made of picked-work stone up to the springing line, while above this line, the tunnel portals are constructed of ashlar, with the central section made of red brick. The bridge has opposing raking wing walls on the north-west and south-east sides, with terminal piers on the north-west wing wall.
Local climate
Blackwell Road Railway Under Bridge at NGR SO9884371537 receives an average of 760 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 65% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 70% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 39 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 76% 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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