Bridge Over River Lea or Lee is a Grade II listed building in the Welwyn Hatfield local planning authority area, England. First listed on 9 December 1983. Bridge.
Bridge Over River Lea or Lee
- WRENN ID
- calm-corner-owl
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Welwyn Hatfield
- Constituency
- Welwyn Hatfield MP: Andrew Lewin (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 9 December 1983
- Type
- Bridge
- Address
- Bridge Over River Lea or Lee, Lemsford Village
- OS grid reference
- TL 220 124
- Coordinates
- 51.7974, -0.23143
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The bridge over the River Lea or Lee, located in Lemsford, is an early 18th-century structure. It is constructed of red brick and features stone coping. The bridge has two arches and includes stone coping on the buttresses of the cutwaters. Additionally, there are three plain pilasters on the side walls.
Local climate
Bridge Over River Lea or Lee 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 85% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 81% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 32 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 58% 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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