Bridge Over Railway in Sydney Gardens 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. 1 related planning application.

Bridge Over Railway in Sydney Gardens

WRENN ID
twelfth-bonework-marsh
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 758 653
Coordinates
51.38651, -2.34895
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The bridge over the railway in Sydney Gardens, built around 1840 by I.K. Brunel for the Great Western Railway, is a notable structure. It features a limestone ashlar parapet, piers, and a south face, with a dark engineering brick north archivolt and numerous repairs to the intrados. The exterior includes an angled semi-elliptical arch spanning the railway, as well as a semicircular arch over the footpath at the west abutment, which is pierced by three semicircular arches that provide views from the footpath to the railway line. The stone parapet is designed with a coped top, semicircular heads and bases for narrow pierced vertical panels, and a plinth or cornice above the arch. The north-west corner of the parapet curves down towards the footpath.

Local climate

Bridge Over Railway in Sydney Gardens receives an average of 850 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 59% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 63% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 33 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer 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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