Bridge Keeper's House to North West of Hardwicke Bridge is a Grade II listed building in the Stroud local planning authority area, England. Bridge keeper's house.
Bridge Keeper's House to North West of Hardwicke Bridge
- WRENN ID
- south-minaret-soot
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Stroud
- Constituency
- North Cotswolds MP: Sir Geoffrey Clifton-Brown (Con)
- Country
- England
- Type
- Bridge keeper's house
- OS grid reference
- SO 789 127
- Coordinates
- 51.81265, -2.30676
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Bridge Keeper's House, located to the northwest of Hardwicke Bridge, was built around 1830 with a later 19th-century addition. It was designed by Robert Mylne, the engineer for the Gloucester and Berkeley Ship Canal. The house is constructed of stucco with painted brickwork and features a Welsh slate roof, while the addition has a plain tile roof.
This single-storey building has a cruciform layout and a portico that faces the canal. The original structure has gable ends with a low-pitched pediment above a continuous entablature. The front portico is supported by fluted Greek Doric columns on circular bases, arranged in a distyle in antis, with engaged flanking walls that each contain a small square window. The central entrance is a plain doorway.
On the southwest end, there is a single cambered-headed sash window, while the northeast side has an altered 20th-century casement window. The rear pediment is partially obscured by the addition, which has various scattered windows. A chimney is mounted on the ridge, aligned with the front portico. The interior has not been inspected. This house is one of two standard designs for bridge keeper's houses on the canal, attributed to Mylne but built after his death. As of January 1985, all doors and windows were boarded over.
Local climate
Bridge Keeper's House to North West of Hardwicke Bridge 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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