Bridge Adjoining Lower 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. Bridge.
Bridge Adjoining Lower Lock
- WRENN ID
- sombre-column-fen
- 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
- Bridge
- OS grid reference
- ST 753 642
- Coordinates
- 51.37721, -2.35494
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The bridge adjoining Lower Lock is an accommodation bridge built around 1800, designed by engineer John Rennie. It is constructed from limestone ashlar and features a single skewed elliptical arch supported by vertical abutments that connect to the walls of Lower Lock. On the west side, the bridge flares out to meet the River Avon.
The exterior includes flush voussoirs with a triple keystone beneath a plain band, topped with a parapet that has heavy weathered coping. At the junction of the canal and the river, the west side has a square pier with a battered base on the right and a coping that sweeps up to a square capped pier on the left, with return walling leading to swept down coping and a stopped end. The east side has similar details, but the swept coping stops at plain square capped piers on both sides. The parapets and roadway are splayed out at the northern end. The Kennet and Avon Canal, which this bridge serves, opened in 1810.
Local climate
Bridge Adjoining Lower 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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