Chewton Bridge is a Grade II listed building in the Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole local planning authority area, England. First listed on 30 August 1996. Road bridge.
Chewton Bridge
- WRENN ID
- tattered-portal-onyx
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole
- Constituency
- Christchurch MP: Sir Christopher Chope (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 30 August 1996
- Type
- Road bridge
- Address
- Chewton Bridge, Lymington Road, Christchurch Road, New Milton, New Forest
- OS grid reference
- SZ 223 938
- Coordinates
- 50.74382, -1.68465
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Chewton Bridge is a road bridge over Walkford Brook, built in 1901. It is constructed of red brick with stone coping and features a concealed reinforced concrete beam. The bridge has a segmental skew arch, with parapets that end in scrolls at the ends of the long abutments. The parapets are cranked over the center, and some of the coping stones have been replaced with concrete. Originally, the bridge was designed with an unusual skew arch that had courses of brick laid at right angles, rather than the typical diagonal coursing for skew arches. However, this design did not meet the approval of the County Surveyor, who required the contractor's engineer to reinforce the bridge with a concrete beam over the brick arch. This beam spans nearly 5 meters and is built to Hennebique's patent specification, remaining completely concealed within the brick structure. Chewton Bridge is notable for being the first reinforced concrete bridge built in Britain.
Local climate
Chewton Bridge receives an average of 930 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 71% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 92% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 8 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 92% of listed buildings. Of these, 3 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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