North Bridge is a Grade II listed building in the Colchester local planning authority area, England. First listed on 10 March 1995. Bridge. 1 related planning application.
North Bridge
- WRENN ID
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- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Colchester
- Constituency
- Colchester MP: Pam Cox (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 10 March 1995
- Type
- Bridge
- Address
- North Bridge, North Station Road, CO1 1RD
- OS grid reference
- TL 993 256
- Coordinates
- 51.89377, 0.89606
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
North Bridge is a road bridge located in Colchester, built in 1843 during the mayoralty of R R Nunn. A plaque on the west side commemorates its construction, while another plaque on the east side notes the bridge's widening by 17 feet 6 inches, carried out by Henry H Elves, JP, Mayor on 22 October 1903.
The bridge is made of cast iron and rests on a substructure of brown brick laid in Flemish bond. It features three piers with pointed stone cutwaters and three cambered cast iron arches with blank spandrels. Above the arches, there is cast iron balustrading consisting of 11 sections with an arched pattern and buttresses. The bridge has two dividing cast iron piers, and the ends are supported by cemented brick piers topped with tooled stone coping. On the east side, there is an attached flight of stone steps leading to the riverside path, complete with an ornamental footscraper and handrail. The approaches to the bridge are lined with cemented revetments, stone coping, and cast iron railings.
Local climate
North Bridge sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 670 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 51% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 18 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 83% of listed buildings. Of these, 9 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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