Bridge Over New River on North Side of Hertford Road at Tl 3574 1401 is a Grade II listed building in the East Hertfordshire local planning authority area, England.
Bridge Over New River on North Side of Hertford Road at Tl 3574 1401
- WRENN ID
- ruined-lantern-briar
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- East Hertfordshire
- Constituency
- Hertford and Stortford MP: Josh Dean (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Address
- Bridge Over New River on North Side of Hertford Road at Tl 3574 1401, Ware
- OS grid reference
- TL 357 140
- Coordinates
- 51.80825, -0.03238
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This bridge, built in 1817, is one of a series of prefabricated bridges over the New River. It features cast-iron girders with perforated spandrels and ornamental keystones that display the date of construction. The girders have a convex chordal profile, and the span of the bridge is approximately 4.5 meters. It is inscribed with "New River Co." and "Priestfield Iron Works near Bilston" from Staffordshire. Currently, the bridge supports a flat concrete slab for the roadway.
Local climate
Bridge Over New River on North Side of Hertford Road at Tl 3574 1401 sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 700 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 90% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 88% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 52% 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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