Footbridge Over Mill Stream, in Grounds 40 Metres North of North Road House is a Grade II listed building in the East Hertfordshire local planning authority area, England. Footbridge.
Footbridge Over Mill Stream, in Grounds 40 Metres North of North Road House
- WRENN ID
- sharp-rood-rain
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- East Hertfordshire
- Constituency
- Hertford and Stortford MP: Josh Dean (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Type
- Footbridge
- OS grid reference
- TL 321 126
- Coordinates
- 51.79702, -0.08456
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This footbridge, built in 1848, is located in the grounds 40 meters north of North Road House in Hertford. Designed by architect Thomas Smith, it features a cast-iron structure with gault brick and stucco abutments. The bridge has segmentally arched girders adorned with trellis-pattern spandrels and handrails that display a bamboo-form lattice pattern. The abutments are designed with piers that have caps and ramped downswept connectors that join the handrails.
Historically, Thomas Smith acquired additional land in the mid-1840s to enhance the setting of his house by landscaping the island between the mill stream and the River Beane, following the picturesque style of J.C. Loudun. The folly located north of the river, now part of the grounds of Beane River View, as well as the gazebo in the grounds of Rockall, Rockleigh, were constructed as part of the garden architecture.
Local climate
Footbridge Over Mill Stream, in Grounds 40 Metres North of North Road House 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 84% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 33 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 55% of listed buildings. Of these, 16 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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