Town Bridge is a Grade II listed building in the Fenland local planning authority area, England. First listed on 13 March 1997. Bridge.
Town Bridge
- WRENN ID
- over-vault-plum
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Fenland
- Constituency
- North East Cambridgeshire MP: Steve Barclay (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 13 March 1997
- Type
- Bridge
- Address
- Town Bridge, Bridge Street, Wisbech
- OS grid reference
- TF 460 096
- Coordinates
- 52.66496, 0.1578
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Town Bridge, also known as Wisbech Bridge, is a river bridge built in 1931 by RSW Perkins, the County Surveyor of the Isle of Ely, and Messrs. L Mouchell of London. It is constructed of reinforced concrete using the Hennibique system and is designed in a Neo-classical style. The bridge features a single flat span with a moulded frieze and cornice, topped with a balustrade that has unusual cube balusters. The sides of the bridge curve outward at the abutments, and each corner has a pedestal with an obelisk topped with a metal lantern. The balustrade extends along the southwest side, along South Brink, for 10 metres. When it was built, this bridge was the longest portal type flat span concrete bridge in the country, with a span of 92 feet 6 inches. It is part of a distinguished group of listed buildings along both sides of the River Nene.
Local climate
Town 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 88% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 90% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 30 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 66% 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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