Telford's Bridge is a Grade II listed building in the St Albans local planning authority area, England. First listed on 26 June 1974. Bridge. 4 related planning applications.
Telford's Bridge
- WRENN ID
- winter-facade-ivory
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- St Albans
- Constituency
- St Albans MP: Daisy Cooper (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 26 June 1974
- Type
- Bridge
- Address
- Telford's Bridge, High Street/Barnet Road, London Colney
- OS grid reference
- TL 182 036
- Coordinates
- 51.71939, -0.28994
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Telford's Bridge is a bridge, said to be built in 1774, although it is apparently not designed by Thomas Telford. The bridge features a red brick construction with some stone dressings. It has seven tunnel arches that become progressively larger towards the center. The arch piers are supported by battered brick plinths that curve beneath the arches in segmental-shaped channels. The outermost piers on each side of the bridge have wedge-shaped cutwaters, and all piers on the south side have stone-dressed bases. In the mid-20th century, parapets and railings were added, along with square buttresses to some of the arch piers.
Local climate
Telford's Bridge 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 89% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 87% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 31 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 61% of listed buildings. Of these, 15 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 4 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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