Sparrows Bridge is a Grade II listed building in the Braintree local planning authority area, England. First listed on 25 January 1993. Bridge.
Sparrows Bridge
- WRENN ID
- rough-mortar-sorrel
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Braintree
- Constituency
- Braintree MP: Sir James Cleverly (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 25 January 1993
- Type
- Bridge
- Address
- Sparrows Bridge, Gosfield
- OS grid reference
- TL 788 292
- Coordinates
- 51.93288, 0.60057
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Sparrows Bridge is an accommodation bridge built around 1865. It is constructed from wrought and cast iron with a timber deck and rendered brick abutments. The bridge features a single span and a bar-stayed cantilever design, supported by four cast iron towers topped with spike finials. It also has decorative cast iron balustrades, although at the time of the survey, most of the balustrade panels were missing and the deck had been concreted. This type of bridge is rare, and few from this period still exist. The bridge originally carried the driveway through the park to Gosfield Place, which was also built around 1865 on the site of an earlier mansion belonging to B Sparrow Esq. The house was demolished around 1925.
Local climate
Sparrows Bridge sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 680 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 99% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 75% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 28 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 70% of listed buildings. Of these, 13 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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