Bridge at Giant's Soap Dish, Blaise Castle Estate is a Grade II listed building in the Bristol, City of local planning authority area, England. First listed on 4 March 1977. A C19 Bridge.

Bridge at Giant's Soap Dish, Blaise Castle Estate

WRENN ID
calm-clay-starling
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Bristol, City of
Constituency
Bristol North West MP: Darren Jones (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
4 March 1977
Type
Bridge
Address
Bridge at Giant's Soap Dish, Blaise Castle Estate, Henbury Road
OS grid reference
ST 559 781
Coordinates
51.50078, -2.63671
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Bridge at Giant's Soap Dish, located in the Blaise Castle Estate, is a small rustic bridge built around 1812. It spans an arm of an artificial pool and is part of J.S. Harford's final design, which includes the carriage drive to Combe Dingle.

Local climate

Bridge at Giant's Soap Dish, Blaise Castle Estate receives an average of 850 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 58% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 62% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 31 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 63% of listed buildings. Of these, 12 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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