Accommodation Bridge 12 Metres South of Wainsford is a Grade II listed building in the Cornwall local planning authority area, England. First listed on 30 April 1985. Railway accommodation bridge.

Accommodation Bridge 12 Metres South of Wainsford

WRENN ID
inner-pewter-hyssop
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Cornwall
Constituency
South East Cornwall MP: Anna Gelderd (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
30 April 1985
Type
Railway accommodation bridge
OS grid reference
SX 151 650
Coordinates
50.45608, -4.60563
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The accommodation bridge located 12 metres south of Wainsford is a small railway bridge built in 1859 by Isambard Kingdom Brunel. It features roughly coursed slatestone on inclined and raking abutments on either side of a segmental vaulted cartway that is 7 feet wide. The bridge has short flank walls designed for gates, abutments, and a low over-sailing parapet that is capped with granite copings. The north parapet has been widened with concrete and includes a guard-rail. This bridge is part of a series of viaducts designed by Brunel on the Plymouth to Truro line, notable for the attention to detail given to even farm access routes through embankments. It is included for its group value alongside the Clinnock, Derricombe, and Largin viaducts.

Local climate

Accommodation Bridge 12 Metres South of Wainsford sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,030 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 82% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 87% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 16 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 84% of listed buildings. Of these, 7 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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