Nunn's Bridge, Coggeshall is a Grade II listed building in the Braintree local planning authority area, England. First listed on 12 October 2020. Footbridge. 1 related planning application.
Nunn's Bridge, Coggeshall
- WRENN ID
- second-beam-moth
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Braintree
- Constituency
- Witham MP: Priti Patel (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 12 October 2020
- Type
- Footbridge
- OS grid reference
- TL 837 218
- Coordinates
- 51.86516, 0.66685
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Nunn's Bridge is a footbridge built in 1892, designed and crafted by local blacksmith and social activist Henry ‘Dick’ Nunn. The bridge is constructed from wrought iron, with timber decking, mass concrete abutments, and tubular steel outriggers.
This single-span bridge, which measures approximately 9.2 meters, is aligned north-south over the River Blackwater. Its gently-arched structure features wrought-iron carriage beams supported by collars with a semi-elliptical arch at the center, along with braces, tubular steel outriggers, and concrete abutments that were replaced around 1965. The carriageway has deck timbers, which were most recently replaced around 2011, laid on regularly-spaced wrought-iron rungs.
On each side of the bridge, a plain wrought-iron handrail is supported by eight vertical posts, with the central six having horizontal support plates and curved stays that extend outward towards the river. Each entrance to the bridge is equipped with a swing gate to limit livestock access.
Local climate
Nunn's Bridge, Coggeshall sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 660 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 67% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 24 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 74% of listed buildings. Of these, 11 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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- Related listed building consents — 1 application
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