Railway Bridge is a Grade II listed building in the West Suffolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 11 February 1987. Bridge.
Railway Bridge
- WRENN ID
- swift-hammer-aspen
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- West Suffolk
- Constituency
- Bury St Edmunds and Stowmarket MP: Dr Peter Prinsley (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 11 February 1987
- Type
- Bridge
- Address
- Railway Bridge, Out Northgate, Bury St. Edmunds
- OS grid reference
- TL 853 651
- Coordinates
- 52.25356, 0.71448
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The railway bridge for the Ipswich and Bury Railway was built in 1846 and designed by architect Frederick Barnes of Ipswich. It is constructed from white brick with stone dressings and features an Italianate style. The bridge has a tripartite elevation with two outer rusticated piers on the east and west sides, complemented by curved rusticated retaining walls along the road to the north and south. A large depressed segmental arch showcases fine internal skewed-arch brickwork. Additional architectural details include stone string-courses, a blocking course to the parapet above the arch, and triangular coping-stones.
Local climate
Railway 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 88% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 93% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 33 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 54% 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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