Mortimer Station Overbridge is a Grade II listed building in the West Berkshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 17 July 2012. Bridge.
Mortimer Station Overbridge
- WRENN ID
- ghost-bonework-claret
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- West Berkshire
- Constituency
- Reading West and Mid Berkshire MP: Olivia Bailey (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 17 July 2012
- Type
- Bridge
- Address
- Mortimer Station Overbridge, Station Road, Stratfield Mortimer, RG7 2AB
- OS grid reference
- SU 672 641
- Coordinates
- 51.3725, -1.03492
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Mortimer Bridge is a single-span overbridge that carries Station Road over the Great Western Railway branch line. It is constructed of red brick in English bond and features a semi-elliptical arch, with a string course on both external elevations and copings made of dressed stone. The original sloping retaining walls at the abutments are still intact on all four corners of the bridge. The design is relatively simple, lacking distinct terminal piers. The parapet ends have been rebuilt in Flemish bond brickwork at three locations: both ends of the south-west parapet and the south-east end of the north-west parapet. Aside from these small areas of rebuilding, the brickwork remains consistent and original.
Metal oval plaques on the north-west and south-east ends of the parapets indicate that the bridge is 31 miles from Paddington. Typically, such distances are painted directly on the wall of GWR bridges, suggesting this may be a unique feature of the Basingstoke branch line.
Local climate
Mortimer Station Overbridge receives an average of 740 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 75% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 66% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 31 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 60% of listed buildings. Of these, 13 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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