Bridge Over River Gipping with Attached Lock Immediately East of Baylham Mill is a Grade II listed building in the Mid Suffolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 26 March 1987. Bridge. 5 related planning applications.
Bridge Over River Gipping with Attached Lock Immediately East of Baylham Mill
- WRENN ID
- sleeping-pilaster-vetch
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Mid Suffolk
- Constituency
- Central Suffolk and North Ipswich MP: Patrick Spencer (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 26 March 1987
- Type
- Bridge
- OS grid reference
- TM 112 527
- Coordinates
- 52.1323, 1.08532
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The bridge over the River Gipping, with an attached lock, was built around 1780 and has undergone repairs with gault brick in the 19th century. It features a humped structure made of red brick, with a semi-circular arch spanning the river and a smaller arch to the left. The parapets are 1 meter high and have moulded and painted stone and concrete cappings. Upstream of the bridge is a contemporary lock made of red and gault brick. The wooden gates, which date from the late 19th century and the early 20th century, are mostly intact but in a state of disrepair. This site is believed to be the best surviving example of a lock from the Ipswich and Stowmarket Navigation. The parish boundary with Baylham runs through the center of the River Gipping, thus passing through the bridge and lock.
Local climate
Bridge Over River Gipping with Attached Lock Immediately East of Baylham Mill sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 700 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 91% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 67% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 24 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 74% of listed buildings. Of these, 12 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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