Accommodation Bridge on Kennet and Avon Canal, 500 Metres East of Honey Street is a Grade II listed building in the Wiltshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 30 October 1987. Bridge.
Accommodation Bridge on Kennet and Avon Canal, 500 Metres East of Honey Street
- WRENN ID
- swift-lime-gorse
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Wiltshire
- Constituency
- East Wiltshire MP: Danny Kruger (RUK)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 30 October 1987
- Type
- Bridge
- OS grid reference
- SU 108 613
- Coordinates
- 51.35078, -1.84605
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The accommodation bridge on the Kennet and Avon Canal, located 500 meters east of Honey Street, was built around 1807 and later modified during the Second World War around 1940. Designed by John Rennie for the Kennet and Avon Canal, the bridge is constructed of red brick with some purple vitrified bricks and features a splayed design in both plan and section. It has a limestone parapet, a 41-centimeter brick bullnosed ring, and a three-course outset string at the base of the parapet. The bridge is topped with half-round copings and caps on the end piers. There is a cast-iron lozenge sign by the Great Western Railway mounted on a rail stanchion. During the Second World War, the bridge was fortified with five lines of iron stanchions (only the bases remain) and round solid drums. On the north side, there is a pillbox made of hollow clayware pots with a concrete roof and an internal baffle wall, which includes five gun ports. The canal works and the associated defences are of notable interest.
Local climate
Accommodation Bridge on Kennet and Avon Canal, 500 Metres East of Honey Street receives an average of 800 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 55% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 51% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 40 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 77% of listed buildings. Of these, 18 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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