Parkend Bridge House is a Grade II listed building in the Stroud local planning authority area, England. First listed on 9 December 1986. Bridgekeeper's house. 1 related planning application.
Parkend Bridge House
- WRENN ID
- twelfth-chapel-jay
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Stroud
- Constituency
- North Cotswolds MP: Sir Geoffrey Clifton-Brown (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 9 December 1986
- Type
- Bridgekeeper's house
- Address
- Parkend Bridge House, Moreton Valence, GL2 7NE
- OS grid reference
- SO 777 106
- Coordinates
- 51.79396, -2.32467
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Parkend Bridge House is a bridgekeeper’s house situated at Parkend Bridge on the Gloucester and Sharpness Canal. It dates from the early 19th century, with a probable enlargement occurring in the 20th century. The design may be by Robert Mylne, the first principal engineer to the Gloucester and Berkeley Canal Company. The house is rendered with an artificial slate roof and small rendered stacks. Originally, it was likely in the same style as other bridgekeepers’ houses, a small cruciform structure with shallow pediments facing each direction, presenting a single storey towards the canal and two storeys to the remaining sides. Alterations have been made to the canal (west) side and to the north, with an extension featuring three 16-pane sashes facing the canal. The pediment facing the canal retains a plain frieze and cornice and two Doric fluted columns, though they are not set in antis. A door, possibly original, is located behind the columns, with the middle pair of panels glazed. A small rear lean-to is present, along with scattered window openings. Survey work for the original canal route from Gloucester to Berkeley was undertaken by Mylne in 1793. The terminal point of the canal was changed to Sharpness in 1813, and the canal opened in 1827.
Local climate
Parkend Bridge House receives an average of 790 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 58% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 50% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 37 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 68% of listed buildings. Of these, 17 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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- Sale history — 3 transactions since 2004
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
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- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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