Footbridge Adjoining Wash House Lock is a Grade II listed building in the Bath and North East Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 11 August 1972. Footbridge.
Footbridge Adjoining Wash House Lock
- WRENN ID
- peeling-groin-bittern
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Bath and North East Somerset
- Constituency
- Bath MP: Wera Hobhouse (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 11 August 1972
- Type
- Footbridge
- OS grid reference
- ST 756 642
- Coordinates
- 51.37708, -2.35149
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The footbridge adjoining Wash House Lock, built around 1815, is a cast-iron structure designed by engineer John Rennie and manufactured by Stothert of Bath. It features a narrow, slightly cambered arch that supports a macadamised path, which is held up by three cast iron ribs with pierced spandrels. The bridge has a maker's panel that reads "STOTHERT, BATH." On either side of the path, there are closely set spiked railings that include a top rail, a double mid-rail with diamond patterns, and dog-bars. The railings return at each end to the lower part of the lock, following the ramped wall on the east side. This footbridge was constructed to connect the new developments along Bathwick Hill with the city, as part of the Kennet and Avon Canal, which was authorized in 1794 and fully opened in 1810.
Local climate
Footbridge Adjoining Wash House Lock receives an average of 860 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 60% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 64% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 52% 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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