Bridge in Hoo Park on East Drive, 60 Metres from Road is a Grade II listed building in the North Hertfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 27 May 1968. Bridge.

Bridge in Hoo Park on East Drive, 60 Metres from Road

WRENN ID
hushed-chalk-peregrine
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
North Hertfordshire
Constituency
Hitchin MP: Alistair Strathern (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
27 May 1968
Type
Bridge
OS grid reference
TL 195 194
Coordinates
51.86052, -0.2657
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The bridge over the River Mimram, located in Hoo Park on East Drive, was built around 1764 by Sir William Chambers for Thomas Brand. It is constructed of Portland stone with a red brick core and features a single-span round arched design that carries East Drive over the river. The roadway has a hump, but the bridge's parapets rise to a horizontal main section. It includes a continuous deep moulded archivolt, V-jointed rustication, and a giant projecting keystone. The parapet has an ovolo bedmould. The bridge originally had turned balusters and dies on a moulded base with a moulded rail, although the balustrade is largely collapsed. The bridge is also a Scheduled Ancient Monument, designated as Herts No. 73.

Local climate

Bridge in Hoo Park on East Drive, 60 Metres from Road sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 720 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 82% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 76% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 35 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 60% of listed buildings. Of these, 17 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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