Bridge Over the River Lark is a Grade II listed building in the West Suffolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 12 July 1972. Bridge.
Bridge Over the River Lark
- WRENN ID
- high-corner-heron
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- West Suffolk
- Constituency
- Bury St Edmunds and Stowmarket MP: Dr Peter Prinsley (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 12 July 1972
- Type
- Bridge
- Address
- Bridge Over the River Lark, Eastgate Street, Bury St. Edmunds
- OS grid reference
- TL 858 644
- Coordinates
- 52.2466, 0.72087
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The bridge over the River Lark, located on Eastgate Street in Bury St Edmunds, was built in 1840. It features purpose-made cast-iron handrails with arched ornamentation in the Gothic style. The structure is supported by octagonal brick piers that have stone plinths and capping. The railings on both approaches to the bridge are in a different style and were previously used to surround the Market Cross.
Local climate
Bridge Over the River Lark 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 85% 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 36 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 62% of listed buildings. Of these, 19 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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