Bridge Over the Yard, Whitbread's Brewery (South Side) is a Grade II listed building in the City of London local planning authority area, England. First listed on 17 March 1975. Footbridge.

Bridge Over the Yard, Whitbread's Brewery (South Side)

WRENN ID
waning-cinder-ridge
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
City of London
Constituency
Cities of London and Westminster MP: Rachel Blake (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
17 March 1975
Type
Footbridge
Address
Bridge Over the Yard, Whitbread's Brewery (South Side), Chiswell Street, City and County of the City of London, EC1Y 4SA
OS grid reference
TQ 324 819
Coordinates
51.52077, -0.09169
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

This is a footbridge built in 1892 at Whitbread's Brewery on the south side. It features iron trusses made of lattice construction, with a wooden and glazed superstructure. The roof is currently covered with corrugated iron. The entire structure is supported by two cast-iron columns on the north side and a metal beam that is carried by two widely spaced cast-iron columns on the south side.

Local climate

Bridge Over the Yard, Whitbread's Brewery (South Side) sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 690 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 95% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 98% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 35 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 57% of listed buildings. Of these, 16 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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