Whitchurch Bridge (Only the Southern Abutment and Part of the Southern Span Are in Berkshire) is a Grade II listed building in the West Berkshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 19 June 1984. Bridge. 2 related planning applications.

Whitchurch Bridge (Only the Southern Abutment and Part of the Southern Span Are in Berkshire)

WRENN ID
solitary-threshold-rye
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
West Berkshire
Constituency
Reading West and Mid Berkshire MP: Olivia Bailey (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
19 June 1984
Type
Bridge
Address
Whitchurch Bridge (Only the Southern Abutment and Part of the Southern Span Are in Berkshire), Whitchurch Road, Whitchurch-On-Thames, South Oxfordshire, RG8 7BP
OS grid reference
SU 636 767
Coordinates
51.48648, -1.08507
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Whitchurch Bridge is a bridge over the River Thames, built around 1900. It features a steel structure with red brick abutments. The bridge is approximately 115 metres long and 8 metres wide, consisting of four equal spans. It has three pairs of piers with cross bracing between them, and a steel deck topped with a lattice girder parapet. The end piers are square in shape. The steelwork was constructed by the Cleveland Bridge and Engineering Company, while the foundations, masonry, and roadway were built by Mr. Tucker of Reading.

Local climate

Whitchurch Bridge (Only the Southern Abutment and Part of the Southern Span Are in Berkshire) sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 730 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 79% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 71% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 35 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 55% of listed buildings. Of these, 14 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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