Avon Bridge is a Grade I listed building in the Bristol, City of local planning authority area, England. First listed on 8 June 1990. Bridge.

Avon Bridge

WRENN ID
pale-tallow-stoat
Grade
I
Local Planning Authority
Bristol, City of
Constituency
Bristol East MP: Kerry McCarthy (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
8 June 1990
Type
Bridge
Address
Avon Bridge, Whitby Road
OS grid reference
ST 613 724
Coordinates
51.44963, -2.558
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Avon Bridge is a railway bridge over the River Avon, built in 1839 by Isambard Kingdom Brunel for the Great Western Railway. It is constructed from squared, dressed Pennant stone and is designed in the Gothic style. The bridge features a wide central span and smaller flanking spans, each with four-centred arches that have moulded archivolts springing from cutwaters. The drip mould and rolltop parapet coping break forward around the semi-octagonal buttresses on the piers and abutments, creating refuges on the permanent way.

Local climate

Avon Bridge receives an average of 860 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 61% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 68% 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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