Ricketts Bridge, Chelmer and Blackwater Navigation is a Grade II listed building in the Maldon local planning authority area, England. First listed on 14 November 1985. Bridge.
Ricketts Bridge, Chelmer and Blackwater Navigation
- WRENN ID
- tall-wicket-candle
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Maldon
- Constituency
- Witham MP: Priti Patel (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 14 November 1985
- Type
- Bridge
- Address
- Ricketts Bridge, Chelmer and Blackwater Navigation, Off Ulting Lane, Langford
- OS grid reference
- TL 826 086
- Coordinates
- 51.74679, 0.64448
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Ricketts Bridge is a bridge over the Chelmer and Blackwater Navigation, built around 1797. The engineer was John Rennie, with supervision by Richard Coates. It is constructed of red brick in English bond and features large granite coping stones. The bridge has a single round-headed arch and a band that runs through square end pillars. Ricketts Bridge is one of the five original bridges and is located to the east of Ricketts Lock.
Local climate
Ricketts Bridge, Chelmer and Blackwater Navigation 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 58% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 19 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 81% of listed buildings. Of these, 10 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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