Road Bridge Over the River Pant is a Grade II listed building in the Braintree local planning authority area, England. First listed on 17 May 1985. Road bridge.
Road Bridge Over the River Pant
- WRENN ID
- seventh-bailey-ivory
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Braintree
- Constituency
- Braintree MP: Sir James Cleverly (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 17 May 1985
- Type
- Road bridge
- Address
- Road Bridge Over the River Pant, Bridge Street, Great Bardfield
- OS grid reference
- TL 675 309
- Coordinates
- 51.95174, 0.43655
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The road bridge over the River Pant is an early 19th-century structure, with some alterations made in the 20th century. It is constructed of red brick in English bond and features moulded V copings made of red clay. The bridge is oriented from north-northwest to south-southeast and has two segmental arches that align with the river, which runs from northeast to southwest. There are four buttresses on each side of the bridge.
To the south, there is a long approach ramp, while a shorter ramp is located to the north; both ramps have brick walls on either side that resemble the bridge itself. The bridge was strengthened in the 20th century with concrete arches. Iron ties run through the springs and buttresses, featuring S-plates and cast iron roundels, with one roundel on each side displaying a foliate pattern. Additionally, there is a cast iron oval plate on the east side of the south approach, which is partially embedded in the ground. Some of the copings on the east side of the north approach have been replaced with moulded concrete blocks shaped like V's. On the west side of the south approach, the brick wall has been rebuilt using modern bricks, and the original copings have been replaced.
Local climate
Road Bridge Over the River Pant sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 700 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 90% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 79% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 33 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 54% of listed buildings. Of these, 17 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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