Shipton Lift Bridge (219) Sp 4850 1675, Oxford Canal is a Grade II listed building in the Cherwell local planning authority area, England. First listed on 19 November 1992. Lift bridge. 4 related planning applications.
Shipton Lift Bridge (219) Sp 4850 1675, Oxford Canal
- WRENN ID
- lost-timber-plum
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cherwell
- Constituency
- Bicester and Woodstock MP: Calum Miller (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 19 November 1992
- Type
- Lift bridge
- Address
- Shipton Lift Bridge (219) Sp 4850 1675, Oxford Canal, Shipton-On-Cherwell and Thrupp
- OS grid reference
- SP 485 167
- Coordinates
- 51.84733, -1.2973
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Shipton Lift Bridge is an accommodation lift-bridge located on the Oxford Canal, with origins in the late 18th century and alterations made in the 19th and 20th centuries. The bridge features a tilting wooden plank deck, wooden handrails, and two balance beams set at a raking angle. It has brick abutments with concrete sills and brick wing walls that have trailing edges, along with stone rubbing blocks on the faces facing the canal. This bridge is part of an important series of lift-bridges on the Oxford Canal, representing a type that is now rare in England.
Local climate
Shipton Lift Bridge (219) Sp 4850 1675, Oxford Canal 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 77% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 70% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 50% of listed buildings. Of these, 15 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 4 applications
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- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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