Wansford Bridge is a Grade I listed building in the Peterborough local planning authority area, England. First listed on 24 February 1982. A Built from 1577 Bridge.
Wansford Bridge
- WRENN ID
- worn-crypt-owl
- Grade
- I
- Local Planning Authority
- Peterborough
- Constituency
- North West Cambridgeshire MP: Sam Carling (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 24 February 1982
- Type
- Bridge
- Address
- Wansford Bridge, Bridge End, City of Peterborough
- OS grid reference
- TL 074 991
- Coordinates
- 52.57928, -0.41497
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Wansford Bridge is a Grade I listed structure located on the boundary of the Parishes of Sibson Cum Stibbington and Wansford. It was built starting in 1577 and features a fine ashlar construction over the River Nene, consisting of a total of 12 arches. The south end of the bridge was rebuilt in 1795 and includes a small round arch and a wide elliptical rusticated arch, with the date displayed in an oval panel above the keyblock. The next three arches date from 1672 to 1674, while the remaining arches are from 1577, as indicated by the initials P.If. in the parapet. The ten bays from the 16th and 17th centuries have round arches, with the 16th-century arches being stepped. Cutwaters rise between the arches to create refuges in the parapet, which features ramped coping and a stringcourse. The arches at the north end are silted up.
Local climate
Wansford Bridge sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 710 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 87% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 85% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 31 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 60% of listed buildings. Of these, 15 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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